suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

channels for this relationship highlight the joint importance of demographic transition, education investment, and structural …

factors influencing the spatial mobility decisions of households, but little is known about how these factors influenced … mobility during the recent economic crisis. This paper uses rich individual level microdata from the last two Spanish censuses … mobility. Our finding suggest that the role, influence and interconnection of unemployment and homeownership in mobility …

When mobility between locations is frictional, a person's economic well-being is partially determined by her place of … birth. Using a life cycle model of mobility, we find that search frictions are the main impairment to the mobility of young …, lower average wages, and fewer possibilities for geographic mobility all contribute to these welfare losses. Paying …

Ten years after the start of transition, there are many puzzles we still have to live with. Why did all countries … labour supply. Surprisingly enough, the literature on the economics of transition has devoted little, if any, attention to … labour force participation decisions. In the models of the optimal speed of transition (OST) literature, the labour force is …

This paper seeks to document and analyse changes in the distribution of wages and employment in the transition … the transition. Proximate causes of this increase seem to be sectoral shifts in employment and increasing inter …

are used to analyze a 1993 survey of 27,000 adults in six transition economies. Estimated selfemployment earnings premia … related to schooling, pre-transition family income, receipt of property in restitution, precommunist family business …

micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the transition to a market … economy. We use data from the Czech Republic because it is a leading transition economy in which the communist grid remained … firms during the transition. Our estimates also indicate that men's wage-experience profile was concave in both regimes and …

transition from communist to market oriented economies. …