.2-3% decrease in local employment and a 1-2% increase in domestic migration from rural to urban areas. These results provide an …

choices in the US. The estimated coefficients are used to simulate population changes and US migration patterns across regions … specification to recover heterogeneous parameters associated with MSA specific variables, migration costs, along with the mean … fixed effects. Migration costs are statistically significant. If migration costs are high, individuals are less likely to …

In this paper, we examine the impact of reductions in barriers to migration on the consumption of rural households in … China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and … per capita both increase with out-migration, and increase more for poorer households. We also establish a causal …

This paper studies the effect of local off-farm employment and migration on rural households’ technical efficiency of … not much debate about the positive contribution of migration and local off-farm employment to China’s economy, there is an … population in the future. Several papers have studied the impact of migration on production and yield with mixed results. But the …

employs a unique natural experiment where some provincial governments in China liberalized migration policies for highly …

the drivers of migration for retirees versus people still in the work force, one finds that the drivers for the two groups … migration decisions are decoupled from job market conditions. Retirees can indulge in specific tastes and preferences such as a … appear to consider both attributes, with natural amenities appearing more important drivers of migration decisions. …

New Economics of Labor Migration (NELM) theory posits a complex relationship between migrants and household income … generation. This paper uses NELM and original survey data to examine the impacts of migration on income sources in Northeast … China. Migration is found to increase farm incomes but decrease self-employed incomes. …