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

Interstate migration in the United States has declined by 50 percent since the mid-1980s. This paper studies the role … in the labor market, which affects the migration rate of all workers. We document that an increase in the share of middle …-aged workers (those ages 40 to 60) in the working-age population in one state causes a large fall in the migration rate of all …

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 …

Intensified European integration, enlargement of the EU, and increasing migration activity worldwide have pushed … migration and migration policy to the forefront of the European agenda. This paper identifies the salient questions to be … addressed by any educated migration policy. It embeds this discussion into a systematic classification of economic migration …

migration, since the desire to migrate declines later in the life cycle. In addition, indirect labor demand effects may also … reduce migration. However, migration of the elderly, return retirement migration, as well as mobility of certain specialist …