migration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has left a legacy on the economic development of the counties where … look at the geography of migration across US counties in the 48 continental states. We then link this settlement pattern of … number of factors which may have influenced both the location of migrants at the time of migration, as well as for 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 …

determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development …. The results indicate that while there is a strong and positive impact associated with overall migration, the national …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more …

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 …