Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic … geographic distance and pre-migration wage profiles, we find that migrants demand a (indexed with respect to local rents) wage …

a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …

between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada’s unemployment insurance system. It has long … regions, it retards the out-migration that is part of the market process, thereby slowing economic development and … the empirical literature that regional variation in the generosity of the insurance system has altered internal migration …

margin. The skill distribution is continuous, and, for each skill level, the distribution of migration cost is also … migration is decreasing in the skill level. When the semi-elasticity of migration is increasing in the skill level, either … negative. Numerical simulations are calibrated using plausible values of the semi-elasticity of migration for top income …

indicate that income taxes are a significant pull factor for international migration decisions. The same is true with respect … to intra-national migration. However, dominance analysis suggests that the relative impact of taxes compared to other …

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …

paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the …

This paper analyzes the impact of migration on destination-country corruption levels. Capitalizing on a comprehensive … find that while general migration has an insignificant effect on the destination country’s corruption level, immigration … understanding of the socio-economic implications associated with migration flows. …