This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of … internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who … differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of migration. We use data on male migrants from three rounds of Turkish …

context of migration. Specifically, we show that if migration is a possibility, such variability in the rate of return to … in a developing economy even after expected migration is netted out. Finally, our findings are shown to have explanatory …

discrimination in the benchmark case of an economy closed to migration, and then explore how migration prospects affect ethnic … inequality. Under the free migration assumption, we find the intuitive result that migration prospects have a protective effect … there is no migration at equilibrium, unless the distribution of individuals’ skills exhibits marked asymmetries. Last, we …

Empirical studies in the migration literature have shown that migration enclaves (networks) negatively affect the … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …