Carrington, William J; Detragiache, Enrica; Vishwanath, Tara - In: American Economic Review 86 (1996) 4, pp. 909-30
The authors study a dynamic model of labor migration in which moving costs decrease with the number of migrants already settled in the destination. This assumption is supported by sociological studies of migrant networks. With endogenous moving costs, migration occurs gradually over time. Once...