Does migration facilitate regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks? The evidence from post-communist economies … indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter-regional unemployment and wage differentials has in fact been rather … low. High wages appear to encourage - and, similarly, high unemployment tends to discourage - overall migration – inbound …

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

central planning to a market economy. I show that while the intensity of migration is low and has even fallen during the … effect in facilitating labour market adjustment to employment shocks. Using aggregate inter-regional migration data and … survey data on past and prospective migration and the willingness to move, I find that economic factosr play little role in …

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

equilibrium, thereby generating unemployment in the ‘East’. This slows the migration of human capital towards the East, but … quickens the migration of raw labour towards the West. A greater share of economic activity is eventually located in the … western region. Unions in the West will benefit from this, provided human capital has low migration costs relative to raw …

The Paper studies determinants of internal migration in Russia. Using panel data on gross region-to-region migration … flows in 1992-99, we estimate the effect of economic, political and social factors. Although overall migration is rather low … prosperous both in terms of employment prospects and public goods. Migration is, however, constrained by the lack of liquidity …

with heterogenous households. We assume that heterogeneity and migration costs prevent households from total migration … outmigration is affected by direct measures aimed at controlling migration (aid and increased migration costs) and indirect … have a financial constraint on migration as well as situations of temporary and permanent migration. These simulations show …