not address the issue of integration between the world food market and local markets. Instead, they assume a complete … heterogeneity across Ethiopia. We also applied the Johansen test for market integration over 95 local maize markets and found that …

the differential effects of external shocks across the regions. The model demonstrates how the internal migration regime … regional behavior until the shocks are large enough to overcome the isolation of local markets. The results show that migration …

The role of migration in reducing poverty in developing countries has been investigated mainly from the perspective of … (Tanzania) traced between 1991 and 2004 have been affected by massive refugee inflows to assess how migration may affect poverty …

highlight the importance of migration to urban sectors in the analysis. Empirical results show that human capital in the …

The migration of household members is potentially an attractive pathway out of poverty for many rural households in … households, labor is their main productive asset. Access to opportunities in distant labor markets through migration can increase … the earning potential of members of such households (Harris and Todaro 1970). Furthermore, if migration takes place as …

Migration and remittances can be used by rural households as a means of insurance, investment, and income augmentation …

Ethiopia to examine the welfare impacts of internal migration. Using a number of techniques and various objective and … subjective measures, we measure the impacts of migration on the welfare of migrants versus non-migrants. We find large gains to … migration suggest that barriers exist, even within countries such as Ethiopia, against the free movement of people to places …