The migration of household members is potentially an attractive pathway out of poverty for many rural households in … households, labor is their main productive asset. Access to opportunities in distant labor markets through migration can increase … the earning potential of members of such households (Harris and Todaro 1970). Furthermore, if migration takes place as …

Migration and remittances can be used by rural households as a means of insurance, investment, and income augmentation …

Ethiopia to examine the welfare impacts of internal migration. Using a number of techniques and various objective and … subjective measures, we measure the impacts of migration on the welfare of migrants versus non-migrants. We find large gains to … migration suggest that barriers exist, even within countries such as Ethiopia, against the free movement of people to places …

developing world, but few multivariate studies have investigated climate-induced migration. We use event history methods and a … over a 10-year period. The results indicate that men’s labor migration increases with drought and that land-poor households … hybrid narrative of environmentally-induced migration that recognizes multiple dimensions of adaptation to environmental …

Environmental migration has been the subject of lively debate in recent years. The conundrum over why experts’ global …

Migration can serve as an outlet for employment, higher earnings, and reduced income risk for households in developing …

Migration and remittances can be used by rural households as a means of insurance, investment, and income augmentation …

While an emerging literature cites weather shocks as major determinants of migration, scant evidence exists on how such … migration impacts the labor markets of receiving communities in developing countries. We address this knowledge gap by … investigating the impact of weather-driven internal migration on labor markets in a post-conflict country, Nepal, using household …

migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of the labor literature, a search model and a Roy … cognitive ability. Longer migration episodes lead to stronger positive selection on both education and ability, as its … permanent migration, where search costs are higher. Labor market frictions explain observed complex network-skill interactions. …