migration pressure, and in disappointment amongst those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how … migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of expected …

We develop a model to study the effects of migration and remittances on inequality in the origin communities. While … inequality may be of opposite signs, suggesting that the dynamic relationship between migration/remittances and inequality may … offers a different interpretation from the usually assumed migration network effects. With no need to endogenize migration …

This paper examines the role of migration networks in determining self-selection patterns of Mexico-U.S. migration. We … first present a simple theoretical framework showing how such networks impact on migration incentives at different education … levels and, consequently, how they are likely to affect the expected skill composition of migration. Using survey data from …

An increasing amount of research in the migration literature shows a positive association between migrant diversity and …

The study analyses migration intentions and expected length of stay in the host country, taking account of the … propensity to change (or retain) migration plans during the course of the migration experience in the host country. We analyse …/NORFACE project. We used different specifications to analyse the exogeneity vs endogeneity of steady/ changing migration plans on …

Migration has a strong economic impact on the sending and host countries. Since individuals and groups do not benefit … equally from migration, interest groups emerge to protect and take care of their narrow self-interests and compete for rents … generated by migration. Narrow self-interests may be present not only for interest groups but also for ruling politicians and …

Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent. Migration and … at many stages of an individual’s migration. Differential returns to skills in origin- and destination country are a … main driver of migration. The economic success of the immigrant in the destination country is to a large extent determined …