international migration from developing to developed countries. In addition, we look at the relationship between trade, development … and migration. Empirical studies focusing on international migration from Less Developed Countries (LDCs) are, so far …, very scarce. In this paper, we utilize a new dataset that is based on migration to Germany from 86 African and Asian …

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 …

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 …

We study barriers to labor mobility using panel data on gross region-to-region migration flows in Russia for 1995 …-2010. We find that barriers that hindered internal migration in 1990s have been generally eliminated by the end of 2000s. In …

This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first … city. We then use a unique longitudinal data that allows us to test our model by focusing on first-time migration. Strong … the migration decision. Our results indicate that both weak and strong ties matter in the migration decision process …

emphasis on youth unemployment, relative to the circumstances of the population as a whole. The evidence since the seventies … indicates that the changes in the youth labour market have been far more dramatic that for other sections of the community and …

During the 1980s youth unemployment rates have persistently exceeded unemployment rates for adults, in Britain as in … other OECD countries. In the interwar period, youth unemployment rates in Britain were dramatically lower than those for … industrial composition of employment, and economy-wide changes in the share of juveniles employed (due to changes in youth …

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 …

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