This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …, demographics and migration status. Migration patterns are found to differ systematically between Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, as well …

International migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites …

Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage … the diaspora, investigating on a macro-level the role of migration in cultural convergence across countries and on a micro …

Using height as a proxy for physical productivity of labour, this paper estimates the selection of Mexican migration to … impact of random shocks on short-run shifts in selection into migration. The results suggest that the first Mexican migrants … of migration. …

We study how migration affects education of girls in Tajikistan - the poorest post-Soviet state and one of the most … 2011, we find that the effect of migration on girls' school attendance differs markedly by age. School attendance of young … remittances. In contrast, school attendance of teenage girls (ages 12-17) falls when siblings migrate, while parental migration …

variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration. Most existing studies … investigate whether households send a migrant after experiencing weather shocks, but the literature lacks evidence on migration as … effect of changing weather patterns over a few years on migration as a diversification strategy. Using a novel household …

physical and mental disability resulting from pre-migration and migration traumas, and inability to develop occupational niches …