Mexican Migration Project data. Our empirical results show that both network externalities and herds have significant effects …

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …

same time are willing to pay for moving costs, for example, that are specific to immigrating workers. -- migration ; labour …

Migration networks are usually captured by the number of people from the migrant's country in the host region. Using … Mexican migration data, we analyze the effects of the usual network variable and two additional origin …

and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …

takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries …. While high-skilled migration is worrisome, many international migrants accept low-skilled positions in host countries. Their … time-inconsistencies between short-run economic gains from migration and negative long-term effects from missing human …

. -- migration ; assimilation ; political economy …