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 …

. This result implies that labor market imperfections that make international migration attractive also make migrant flows … that minimum wages bind and demand is price sensitive without these distortions. -- international migration ; migrant …