The determinants of migration propensities of East Germans in the German Socioeconomic Panel are investigated. The … option value of waiting is proposed to capture important aspects of the migration decision. Logit analysis of migration … migration calculus. Levels and growth rates of nominal wages have little explanatory power. Some policy implications of these …

In this paper, I analyse the development of inter-regional mobility in the Czech Republic during the transition from … central planning to a market economy. I show that while the intensity of migration is low and has even fallen during the … transition, regional disparities in unemployment rates and earnings have increased. More importantly, labour mobility has little …

contract interpretation, while US regional labour markets are characterized by high regional mobility, rendering insurance less …

. Our method also allows for interactions between the regional and sectoral mobility of labour. We apply this to the UK … of education and housing tenure on regional and sectoral mobility. …

This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar …

This paper examines migrants' choice of destination conditional on migration. To this end, we design an empirical … strategy which remedies both migration selection and unobserved heterogeneity problems. The study uses data from two rounds of … Nepal Living Standard Surveys and a Population Census and examine how the choice of a migration destination is influenced by …

. This essay provides a broad and in-depth account of the effects of the post-enlargement migration flows on the receiving as … analysis of the available literature and empirical evidence shows that (i) EU enlargement had a significant impact on migration … hard to detect, (iv) post-enlargement migration contributes to growth prospects of the EU, (v) these immigrants are …

, smoking, occupational choice, participation in sports, and migration, the paper compares the predictive power of all of the …

, combining risk-aversion and concavity of mobility costs at the household level. Evidence from Southern Italy is consistent with …