opposed to work-based migration, for economic development, urbanization and city workforce composition. We then calibrate our … college graduates and the relaxation of the work-based migration have limited effects on economic development and urbanization …Observing rapid structural transformation accompanied by a continual process of rural to urban migration in many …

This paper studies the welfare effects of encouraging rural-urban migration in the developing world. To do so, we build … a dynamic incomplete-markets model of migration in which heterogenous agents face seasonal income fluctuations …, stochastic income shocks, and disutility of migration that depends on past migration experience. We calibrate the model to …

then used to evaluate how changes to city migration policies and land supply regulations affect the speed of urbanization …-urban migration induced by structural transformation to the behavior of Chinese housing markets. In the model, technological progress … and house price appreciation. The analysis indicates that making migration policy more egalitarian or land policy more …

urbanization in middle-income countries such as Argentina, but it will slow down urban transition in poor countries like Malawi and …This paper examines the impact of temperature changes on rural-urban migration using a 56km×56km grid cell level … rural-urban migration in poor countries and increase such migration in middle-income countries. These asymmetric migration …

We aim to quantify the role of social networks in job-related migration. With over 130 million rural labors migrating … to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental … variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co …

This paper explores the contribution of the structural transformation and urbanization process to China's housing …-market boom. Rural to urban migration together with regulated land supplies and developer entry restrictions can raise housing … prices. This issue is examined using a multi-sector dynamic general-equilibrium model with migration and housing. Our …

China's fast economic growth over the past 40 years has been accompanied by an increasingly rapid rate of urbanization …, from about 20% in the early 1980s to 60% in 2018. In addition to natural population growth, rural-urban migration is …, but not to the change of night-time light. These results suggest that an inaccurate account of urbanization is an …

This article examines the long term physical and mental health effects of internal migration focusing on a relatively … unique migration experience from Southern and Northeastern regions of Italy to Northwestern regions and to the region around … migration effect among early-cohort females on physical health. We find no evidence of migration-health effects for the later …

This paper exploits two unique features of China's history to study the effects of access to internal migration …: reforms to the household registration (hukou) system, and historical migration flows. We show that temporary migration due to … later, hukou reforms in cities which sent SDY increased migration in provinces where those SDY temporarily resided. Using …

China strongly restricts rural-rural, urban-urban, and rural-urban migration. The result which this paper documents is …