. Overall, these results strongly support the productivity gains that can be expected from further migration and urbanisation in …

This paper studies the role of internal migration in income convergence across regions in Japan. Neoclassical theory … predicts that migration should have been an important source of convergence, but regression results suggest otherwise. The … paper investigates the possibility that this discrepancy is explained by the effects of migration on population composition …

Migration research has been quite successful in explaining changes in migration flows. Less satisfactory are its …

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 …

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. …

able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …

This paper models how migration both influences and responds to differences in disease prevalence between cities …, regions and countries, and show how the possibility of migration away from high-prevalence areas affects long-run steady state … disease prevalence. We develop a dynamic framework where both migration and prevention behaviour respond to the prevalence of …

after the incentive is removed. The migration rate is 10 percentage points higher in treatment areas a year later, and three … re-migration, and by conducting a new experiment with a migration insurance treatment. We document several pieces of …