proxies of the costs of migration, we find substantially less evidence of "intermediate selection" on observed skill. We find … little evidence for selection on unobserved skill, with or without controls for the costs of migration. Finally, we show … migration. Overall, these findings are consistent with the predictions of the canonical model of migration …

Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Source …country patterns, particularly the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico …

This paper examines the influence of transportation infrastructure on migration decisions in the context of the Great … Migration in the United States. Focusing on the opening of the Panama Canal in 1920, we isolate the effect of improved economic … opportunities from reduced migration costs. Using full-count Census data, we find that Southern African American migrants preferred …

studies by focusing on the relationship between job mobility and migration. First, the proportion of geographic mobility that … relationship between migration and job mobility. Third, the effect of migration on the wage gains of individuals is studied and … Mature Men and the Coleman-Rossi Retrospective Life History Study), the importance of the relationship between migration and …

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 …

Do new migration opportunities for rural households change the nature and extent of informal risk sharing? We … in their villages. We explain this finding using a model of endogenous migration and risk sharing. When migration is … risky, the network can facilitate migration by insuring that risk, which in turn crowds-in risk sharing when new migration …

, mostly immediate family. There is little evidence that the legalization increased subsequent unauthorized migration; in fact …