value of labor mobility for economic prosperity and its determinants. Labor migration and not welfare migration dominates … the future a much higher level of circular and permanent migration. …

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 …

, creating a "brain drain" in the sending country. In reality, migration is typically temporary: Workers migrate, find employment … circular migration can be costly to both sending and receiving countries. …

Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which … capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by gender and education in 1990 and 2000, and calculation of nuanced brain …-gravity model, then identifies key determinants of international migration, and subsequently uses estimated parameters to impute …

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