development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic … migrants in absence of migration to evaluate the effect of regional migration when the effect of migration is purely … compositional (i.e., when wages are treated as exogenous). We find that regional migration increases average wages by 1.8% and …

our attrition measure correlates strongly with aggregate migration, we interpret these results as evidence that wage … increases in Ghana improved retention mainly through reducing international migration. …

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing … corrected for the change in household size. -- migration ; income ; poverty ; underestimation ; reference groups …"This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First …

The massive displacement of Venezuelan citizens to Colombia is the second most important episode of forced migration in … the world. We study the impact of this demographic shock on the Colombian income distribution exploiting the geographical … heterogeneity in the intensity of migration. We use RIF regressions in an instrumental variables approach to account for the non …

population leads to a stronger incentive to engage in migration for a given level of a population’s income; that total relative …We provide an analytical-behavioral explanation for the observed positive relationship between income inequality, as … deprivation is positively related to the Gini coefficient; and that, consequently, the Gini coefficient and migration are …

origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …

. Climate change intensifies poverty and income inequality creating favorable conditions for urbanization and migration from low … migration of workers. For nearly all of the world's countries, our micro-founded model jointly endogenizes the effects of … changing temperature and sea level on income distribution and individual decisions about fertility, education, and mobility …