these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First … China’s internal economic geography that differ in their degree of interregional labor mobility. We find that increased … along the coastal regions. Given the increased importance of China’s internal market, firms agglomerate in the populous …

,capital-scarce and low productivity, countries, in order to explain key features of tax policies and inter- and intra-migration flows … migration flows, on the other hand, between rich and poor countries, within the union, and migration flows from the rest of the …

different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic … resolution. We then use the model to quantify the gains from relaxing migration restrictions as well as to describe the evolution … of the distribution of economic activity in the different migration scenarios. Our results indicate that fully …

This paper summarizes the study design of the Rural–Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project. We first … identifying the migration status of each household in the sampling frame, using a presurvey listing. This is followed by a …

population) and out-migration is lower the poorer and the less unequal the village of residence. Our results are consistent with …

This study explores to what extent migration has contributed to improved living standards of individuals in Tanzania …. Using a 13-year panel survey, the authors find that migration between 1991 and 2004 added 36 percentage points to … migration of some categories of people. …