view tends to neglect two important dynamic e ffects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants …' quality, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks …-equivalent migration costs by education level relate to networks. The results imply that the relationship between networks and immigrants …

Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe … Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … countries, and attempt to reconcile the features of migration flows with our predictions for earnings by destination. We find …

, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of …

Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe … Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … countries, and attempt to reconcile the features of migration flows with our predictions for earnings by destination. We find …

view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …

Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not … account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able … individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across …

We use a gravity model of migration and alternative estimation strategies to analyse how income differentials affect …