The determinants of migration propensities of East Germans in the German Socioeconomic Panel are investigated. The … option value of waiting is proposed to capture important aspects of the migration decision. Logit analysis of migration … migration calculus. Levels and growth rates of nominal wages have little explanatory power. Some policy implications of these …

In this paper, I analyse the development of inter-regional mobility in the Czech Republic during the transition from … central planning to a market economy. I show that while the intensity of migration is low and has even fallen during the … transition, regional disparities in unemployment rates and earnings have increased. More importantly, labour mobility has little …

. Analyzing interstate mobility in the US, we find strong support for our hypothesis: a 1 percentage point rise in population …

contract interpretation, while US regional labour markets are characterized by high regional mobility, rendering insurance less …

. Our method also allows for interactions between the regional and sectoral mobility of labour. We apply this to the UK … of education and housing tenure on regional and sectoral mobility. …

This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar …

amphasis of the rile of migration and labor mobility in this process. The effects of congestion costs, rigid wages, human …

While global migration is increasing, internal EU migration flows have remained low. This paper contributes to a better … understanding of the determinants and scale of European migration. It surveys previous historical experiences and empirical findings … including the recent Eastern enlargements. The determinants of migration before and after the 2004 enlargement and in the EU15 …

This paper presents a critical survey of theories of migration, their welfare and policy implications and their … empirical relevance. We also develop some extensions to the theory beginning with a general encompassing model of migration … the wage gap between an advanced and a backward region to reduce the rate of migration, follows from the standard model …