-specific characteristics (particularly earnings differentials) on physician location decisions. We find, among other things, that high-productivity …-selection ; earnings ; longitudinal data ; productivity …Several papers have tested the empirical validity of the migration models proposed by Borjas (1987) and Borjas, Bronars …

the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …

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

This paper examines the role of labor market frictions and moving costs in explaining the migration behavior of US … estimate a dynamic model of individual labor supply and migration decisions. The model incorporates a reduced-form search model … and allows for migration for non-market reasons. My estimates show that moving costs are substantial and that labor market …

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 …

. It explicitly addresses the question of what workers newly experience in the richer economy (higher productivity), what … accounting literature, productivity differences in favor of the richer economy, due to differences in TFP and in physical capital …

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well … understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc … application to the case of EU-enlargement and the ensuing migration streams to be expected from Eastern Europe. …

earnings among adult male Jewish immigrants in Israel, using the 1972 Census of Israel. Among other findings, Hebrew speaking … migration and if many others in the area in which the respondent lives speak the same origin language. Country of origin and … family structure also matter. Earnings are found to increase with level of schooling, duration in Israel, pre …