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

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 …

A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid social humiliation. In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …

migration from new EU members countries, we find moderate negative wage effects, combined with increased unemployment for some …

-country migration policies across Europe and (ii) that the European Union needs to become an active player on the international labour …