Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed … migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. This paper identifies the salient questions to be … addressed by any educated migration policy. It embeds this discussion into a systematic classification of economic migration …

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking … destination areas. In this paper, we show that this temporary feature of migration can be linked to land rights insecurity. As … village land ownership remains collective and as land use rights can be periodically reallocated, individual out-migration can …

differentials as well as differences in employment opportunities are the central forces which drive East-West migration after …

We review the different migration episodes in Spain since the beginning of the 20th century, with special emphasis on … 1950-1973 periods are considered. Foreign immigration is also discussed. Special attention is devoted to internal migration … regions, while the reverse has happened with the better off ones. Intra-regional migration, which has not received much …

able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …

Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate the impact of health on domestic migration within …

The migration of labour can affect economies in several ways. This paper focuses on two of the economic impacts of … migration in the context of the recent Welsh experience. Firstly, since migration is a key aspect of labour market flexibility … the most deprived parts of Wales have the lowest levels of migration and that both in and outmigration rates are …

The majority of modelling studies on consequences of internal migration focus almost exclusively on the labour market … pattern of migrants' subjective well-being (SWB) around the time of the migration event. Our findings make an original … contribution by revealing for the first time that, on average, migration is preceded by a period when individuals experience a …

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …

presented in the paper is general enough to estimate models of internal and external migration. We apply our framework to …