language proficiency of migrants. These studies, however, ignore the choice of location as a function of language skills. Using … data on Mexican migration to the US, we show that migrants choose smaller networks as their English language proficiency …

migrants, those remaining in the sending areas, and people already living in the recipient locations. The topics vary widely … distinctions in culture between migrants, the families they left behind, and the local population in the migration destination. The … populations reaction to migrants, the political culture of the migrants and local population, links to the country-of-origin, and …

semiparametric proportional hazard model for discrete duration data. Our data consists of a sample of return migrants from six … villages in Egypt. Controlling for human capital and demographic characteristics of the migrants and economic indicators of the …