The paper develops a tractable econometric model of optimal migration, focusing on expected income as the main economic … influence on migration. The model improves on previous work in two respects: it covers optimal sequences of location decisions … panel data from the NLSY on white males with a high school education. Our main conclusion is that interstate migration …

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

, during the Second Great Migration. This same period witnessed the struggle and eventual success of the civil rights movement … in ending institutionalized racial discrimination. This paper shows that the Great Migration and support for civil rights … are causally linked. Predicting Black inflows with a shift-share instrument, we find that the Great Migration increased …

Migration is a key mechanism through which local labor markets adjust to economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze the … migration response of American workers to two of the most important shocks that hit US manufacturing since the 1990s: Chinese … spillovers outside manufacturing, caused by robots but not by Chinese imports, can explain the different migration responses. We …

We examine how export expansion induced by the U.S-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement (BTA) affected migration, school … prior to the policy change. We find that the BTA led to migration to the most affected provinces, particularly by …

This paper provides a novel perspective on the Great Migration out of the U.S. South. Using a shift …

This paper joins a few very recent attempts to analyze migration in the awareness of the family context. In contrast to … most of them, my focus is exclusively on the family context. The paper defines family ties relevant to migration decisions … and explains their effects on the probability of migration, on consequent changes in employment and earnings of family …

This paper has two goals: first to describe a theoretical model which derives relationships among migration decisions … explicitly from utility maximization under uncertainty; and second, to examine why nations vary in their internal migration. To … explain variation in internal migration, we hypothesize that the degree of monetization and industrialization of an economy is …