This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants’ gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …

This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants’ origin. We use an instrumental … variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that … emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender inequality is associated with promotion of more (less) progressive …

receive stochastic opportunities to migrate to an entrant. They can accept a migration opportunity or wait for a future … opportunity. In some circumstances, users have incentives to delay migration until others have migrated. If they all do so, no … migration takes place, even when migration would have been Pareto-superior. This provides an endogenous micro-foundation for …

) migration intentions. We combine individual survey data on migration intentions with measures of localized weather shocks for … conditions, migration perceptions, or adaptation capabilities. We find that droughts are associated with a higher probability of … migration intentions in Senegal, Niger and Ivory Coast. The effect on international migration intentions are only significant in …

migration by bringing together the perspectives of the host and the home country. In this endeavor, it reviewed and evaluated … phenomena of return, circular and onward migration. It emphasized commonalities and compared differences in findings, while … heterogeneous people and cannot conform under one theory or empirical study. Their de facto migration comportment can be understood …

The economic consequences of migration are hotly debated and a main topic of recent populist movements across Europe … identification, we exploit a historical episode in the Polish migration history to Germany before the fall of the Iron Curtain and … construct a shift-share instrument. Our results differ from findings for high-skilled migration to the United States, which is …

This paper estimates the impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on migration and other economic outcomes …. I develop a quantitative spatial model that captures the role of trade networks, migration barriers, and agricultural …, by the end of the century, reduces SSA real GDP per capita by 1.8 percent and displaces 4 million individuals. Migration …

quantify risk sharing can be extended to account for migration as an additional channel of cross-country risk sharing. In … theory, migration should play a key role when it comes to insulating per capita consumption from aggregate fluctuations, and … these results, we also present survey evidence which shows that migration rates are about 20 times higher in the US. Lastly …

gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …This paper looks at the impact of networks on international migration flows to OECD countries. In particular, we look … at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both …