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 …

his paper examines an important anomaly in the internal migration history of the former Soviet Union (FSU). While many … cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess …

During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to …

This paper determines how individual, relative to community, social capital affects individual migration decisions. We … confirm that higher individual social capital is a negative predictor of migration. …

Consistent with predictions from the literature, we find that higher levels of in-migration dilute multiple dimensions … migration. …

examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that … while the declining net migration rate was reversed during the first half of the 1990s, restrictions continued to matter … during the early years of transition in the sense that net migration rates were lower in the restricted than in the …