Does migration facilitate regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks? The evidence from post-communist economies … indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter-regional unemployment and wage differentials has in fact been rather … low. High wages appear to encourage - and, similarly, high unemployment tends to discourage - overall migration – inbound …

central planning to a market economy. I show that while the intensity of migration is low and has even fallen during the … effect in facilitating labour market adjustment to employment shocks. Using aggregate inter-regional migration data and … survey data on past and prospective migration and the willingness to move, I find that economic factosr play little role in …

have with little doubt exceeded any pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of migration. In conclusion, the freedom of movement …

Force Survey and conducting our own statistical analysis of selectivity into migration, we study whether and how migration … of migration flows in terms of the destinations, gender, age, educational attainment and occupation, reflecting changing …, migration propensity was higher among the unemployed and from the more depressed regions of Slovakia. We conclude that labor …

This paper studies the migration response of the youth from new EU member states to disparate conditions in an enlarged … duration. We find that migration intentions are high among those not married and among males with children, but both categories … are also overrepresented among people with only temporary as opposed to long-term or permanent migration plans. Whereas …

have with little doubt exceeded any pecuniary and non-pecuniary costs of migration. In conclusion, the freedom of movement …

self-employed. These results are discussed in the context of policy changes, migration strategies, assimilation effects and …

this class of models, payments to the unemployed in each country. The model is used to evaluate the impact of migration in … the enlarged EU, and would also be directly relevant for the NAFTA countries, under a range of possible migration … scenarios involving three types of workers: skilled, unskilled, and unemployed. Full migration is the only scenario in which the …

during the transition period as well as in the years to come. Updated inter-regional migration rates show that Latvian … countervailing factors; outflow rates tended to be larger from high unemployment regions. Analysis of individual migration decisions … made in 1989-1999 and migration plans for 1999-2002 confirms significance of economic incentives for geographical mobility …

Force Survey and conducting our own statistical analysis of selectivity into migration, we study whether and how migration … of migration flows in terms of the destinations, gender, age, educational attainment and occupation, reflecting changing …, migration propensity was higher among the unemployed and from the more depressed regions of Slovakia. We conclude that labor …