There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied … by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is … descriptively examine the relationship between migration and self-employment, finding that the self-employed are indeed less likely …

We study how migration from a poor to a rich country affects key economic beliefs, preference parameters, and … transnational household decision-making efficiency. Our setting is the migration of Tongans to New Zealand through a migration … and the efficiency of intra-family decision-making. Migration provides a large and permanent positive shock to income, a …