they were free to migrate. Given a migration cost in distance, a town nearer to the homelands will receive a larger inflow …, the authors study the effect of migration on urbanization in South Africa. While they find that on average there is no … start off larger do grow endogenously in the wake of a migration shock, while rural areas that start off small do not …

This paper provides the first systematic analysis of migration to, within, and from Libya. The data used in the … analysis are from the Displacement Tracking Matrix data set of the International Organization for Migration. The analysis uses … this unique source of data, combining several techniques to analyze various dimensions of migration in Libya. First, the …

There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied … by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities to reduce migration. Self-employment is … descriptively examine the relationship between migration and self-employment, finding that the self-employed are indeed less likely …

This study examines the asset gains to households in Kerala, India, from two types of labor migration: moving overseas …

Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the … benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a … losers. Using the lottery outcome as an instrument, the paper finds that the government intermediated migration increased the …