A human capital model of migration that includes location-specific capital and job search is integrated with job-matching …/flows approach to labor markets. This generates a model that is consistent with the observed pro-cyclicality of new migration. Unlike … all previous models, this model not only explains, it predicts the observed counter-cyclicality of return migration. …

the determinants of long and short distance migration. I estimate a multinomial logit model, to ascertain whether the … determinants of migration differ between the choices of migrating long or short distances. I find that increases in pre-migration … income decreases probability of migrating a long distance, while pre-migration income has no effect on the decision to move a …

sending economies? How differently would skilled (or unskilled) migration affect both receiving and sending economies? What … factors would contribute to immigration/emigration benefits/costs and economic growth driven by migration? Who are the winners … different skill compositions to address these questions. We show that migration, in general, is beneficial to the receiving …

) from comprehensive school affects the probability of migration among university graduates. The econometric analysis applies … migration decision. In addition, we find a positive relationship between the GPA and migrating from regions with lower per … [III] estimates the relationship between migration across labour market regions and the subsequent changes in earnings by …

job creation and job matching, they can also stifle the assimilation process by limiting interactions between enclave …

paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the …

market policies, social protection programmes, fair migration and indirect policies like pro employment macro policies. There …

United States and Mexico rather than proxies for differential costs of migration. © 2014 The President and Fellows of Harvard …