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

apprehensions on crowding out of less educated workers in the countries of destination and on welfare migration turned out to be by …

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 …

This paper provides a micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration analyzing how financial constraints … determine migration trends. We build a RUM model in which we explicitly introduce the budget constraint in the migration … decision: individuals cannot afford migrating to a destination for which the migration cost (which depends on the immigration …

In this paper we analyze the determinants of interregional migration in Kazakhstan using quarterly panel data on region … to region migration in 2008-2010. To the best of our knowledge this is the first study on interregional population flows … in Central Asia. We find that migration is determined by economic factors, first of all income: People are more likely to …