International migration is an expensive form of investment, that only households relatively better off can afford. However poorer households have the higher incentive to migrate. Migration decision is conditional on the entry cost, expected returns and risks of migration. This paper, using data...

The past decade has witnessed a surge of interest in the economic analysis of networks. This chapter is concerned with the role played by labor and credit networks in shaping economic activity in developing countries. The problem of identifying network effects on economic outcomes is first...

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been discussed which hint at the possibility that progress...

The Comprehensive Development Plan aims to create a sustainable development space and generate opportunities to improve the quality of life of the people of El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and south-southeast Mexico, thus making migration a choice rather than an obligation. This is an joined up...

Wird auf Basis der Wanderungsstatistik das Phänomen der Reurbanisierung betrachtet, ist vor allem die Überlagerung der nationalen Binnenwanderung durch die Zuzüge aus dem Ausland zu beachten, um Fehlschlüsse zu vermeiden. Ganz "rein" lässt sich mit Mitteln der Wanderungsstatistik das...