This study examines the asset gains to households in Kerala, India, from two types of labor migration: moving overseas … versus moving within India for employment. It draws on panel data from waves of a representative household survey conducted …-migrants enables them to earn as much in low-skill jobs abroad as more educated workers relocating within India can …

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 …

Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an …

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 …

around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing … countries, with the probability of migration peaking in the late teens or early twenties. The paper examines in detail the age … participation in schooling and work in the destination country, the types of jobs they do, and the age of return migration. The …

Migration facilitates the flow of information between countries, thereby reducing informational frictions that … potentially hamper cross-country financial flows. Using a gravity model, migration is found to be highly correlated with financial …. These differential effects are interpreted as evidence for the role of migration in reducing information frictions between …

The labor force of each industrial country is being shaped by three forces: ageing, education and migration. Drawing on …

opposed to the country where they were born. Among those arriving from many high-income countries, the transit migration ratio … exceeds 30 percent. To explain these patterns, this paper constructs a dynamic model of global migration that allows transit … migration opportunities to impact the attractiveness of locations. After estimating the structural parameters of the model, the …