suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …

roles “other people” play in influencing an individual’s potential migration decision. In analyzing the influence of others … on migration decisions, we rely on the concepts of migration networks and herd effects. …

during the early years of transition in the sense that net migration rates were lower in the restricted than in the …This paper analyses Russian city growth during the command and transition eras. Our main focus is on understanding the … examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that …

examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 … are consistent with a classical view of migration: children on average appear to migrate out of competitive, rural child … labor markets for net financial gain. The costs of migration are important. Children are less likely to migrate from more …

sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in … the country's market transition. I show that the 1980s' Household Responsibility System (HRS), which brought family … intraprovincial non-hukou rural-urban migration, which may have made labor retention policies such as the small township strategy …

We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban … city and a restricting-migration policy that imposes some costs on migrants. We show that all these policies can increase … effect on urban wages, which reduces job creation and thus migration. When these two effects are combined with search …

migrants in China based on their migration destination choices. Our baseline estimates suggest that to induce a migrant to move … little with migration distance; it is slightly higher for female than male migrants; it is not affected by the migrant's age …

restrictions were lifted, interprovincial migration responded to expected earnings and local employment conditions, and returns to …