International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments … caregivers in migrant households. Estimates for Moldova show that international migration raises parental aspirations in … shocks in the destination countries and migration networks. These results imply that aspirations are a highly relevant …

in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to … explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and characteristics in both macro- and micro-level data …

inter-regional migration patterns in the 1990s. We find that migration is lower in candidate countries and new member states … than in EU15 member states. Also in contrast to the EU15 member states migration has fallen in candidate countries and new … member states. This casts doubt on the viability of migration as an adjustment mechanism. Estimating place to place models of …

channels for this relationship highlight the joint importance of demographic transition, education investment, and structural …

. 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 … ages) over the course of the 21st century. However, under current migration laws and policies, forcibly displaced people …

find evidence that migrants are self-selected along higher individual aspirations acquired (or, inherited) before migration …. However, despite the fact that migration is economically beneficial for most migrants, the migration experience itself seems …

International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments … caregivers in migrant households. Using unique survey data from Moldova, we find that international migration raises parental … on GDP growth shocks in the destination countries and migration networks. We conclude that aspirations are a highly …

a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the education … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …