This paper has two goals: first to describe a theoretical model which derives relationships among migration decisions … explicitly from utility maximization under uncertainty; and second, to examine why nations vary in their internal migration. To … explain variation in internal migration, we hypothesize that the degree of monetization and industrialization of an economy is …

Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … in their villages. We explain this finding using a model of endogenous migration and risk sharing. When migration is … risky, the network can facilitate migration by insuring that risk, which in turn crowds-in risk sharing when new migration …

internal migration into river valleys after Onchocerciasis eradication, combined with a new survey of village elders to …

migration, we do not measure any significant changes in native internal mobility. Then, using a panel regression and a shift …

." Initial estimates from a census-based gravity model of interprovincial and international migration show a much higher border … effect for migration, with interprovincial migration among the Anglophone provinces almost 100 times as dense as that from U ….S. states to Canadian provinces. Effects of migration on subsequent trade patterns are found for international but not for …

Within the conceptual framework of the Roy model, this paper provides an empirical analysis of internal migration flows … size and skill composition of internal migration flows. Persons whose skills are most mismatched with the reward structure …