This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of … internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who … differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of migration. We use data on male migrants from three rounds of Turkish …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …

regions that are internationally connected and have better access to education. Conversely, human capital responses are … educational opportunities. These results extend to internal migration, implying that highly vulnerable populations are trapped in …

This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical U ….S. migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration networks for each receiving and sending … average is only 0.4. Networks were particularly important in connecting black migrants with attractive employment …

. Selection factors and determinants of female migration, as well as the gendered impacts of migrant networks, are also discussed. …While scholars have long studied the economics of migration, increasing waves of international and regional migration … around the world have placed greater focus on the varied impacts of migration in recent years. Critical to this line of …

cognitive ability. Longer migration episodes lead to stronger positive selection on both education and ability, as its … migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of the labor literature, a search model and a Roy … model. Theory and empirics show temporary migrants are intermediately selected on education, with weaker selection on …

emigrants. Individuals self-select into migration and locations based on education. Migration to urban centres increases with … migration costs, as well as by higher investment in education (for rural migrants). Migration prospects to urban centres drive … education choices of rural individuals. Hence, migration policies can be used to stimulate educational attainment in rural …

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

We describe an unsupervised method for delineating functional labour market areas (LMAs) in national commuting networks …