quantify three distinct barriers that prevent East Germans from migrating west to obtain a higher wage: migration costs …

sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in … intraprovincial non-hukou rural-urban migration, which may have made labor retention policies such as the small township strategy …

confirm the importance of wage differentials in determining such mobility. Furthermore, an increased skilled out-migration …

Declining internal migration in the United States is driven by increasing home attachment in locations with initially … attachment, this paper estimates a structural model of migration that distinguishes moving frictions from home utility …

invented anew by transnational migration networks in a globalized world. There is no evidence of the supposed superiority of … adaptés et inventés de nouveau par les réseaux de la migration transnationale dans un monde globalisé. Il n'y a aucune preuve …

measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk …

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking … destination areas. In this paper, we show that this temporary feature of migration can be linked to land rights insecurity. As … village land ownership remains collective and as land use rights can be periodically reallocated, individual out-migration can …