proposes and solves a matching model of the labour market, where shadow employment emerges in equilibrium as the endogenous …

different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic … resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … of the distribution of economic activity in the different migration scenarios. Our results indicate that fully …

population) and out-migration is lower the poorer and the less unequal the village of residence. Our results are consistent with …

This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania …. Using a 13-year panel survey, the authors find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added 36 percentage points to … migration of some categories of people. …

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 …