education in the migration premium. By separating migrants into those that moved out of original villages but remained within … at both destinations. However, whilst the higher return on education fully explains the gains associated with migration …Given the migration premium previously identified in an impact evaluation approach, this paper asks the question of why …

respect to the role of migration. Interestingly, migration seems to be unimportant for the convergence process, at odds with …

This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical U ….S. migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration networks for each receiving and sending … average is only 0.4. Networks were particularly important in connecting black migrants with attractive employment …

, intra-urban mobility, suburbanisation, and long-distance migration) for residents of the segregated post-Soviet city of …

During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North …. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has … aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling …

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 …

incentive for families to locate in a particular place, which may change migration patterns, and potentially boost local … relatively generous Promise programs on migration rates and housing prices in their local labor market. The paper finds evidence … that Promise programs lead to significantly reduced out-migration rates for at least three years after a Promise program is …

human capital theory. Instead, we propose a simple dynamic extension of the Roy model, where worker migration and wages are …