. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a … credible counterfactual of what the person and their household would have been doing had migration not occurred. Migration … impacts of migration. We provide an overview and critical review of the three strands of this approach: policy experiments …

. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a … credible counterfactual of what the person and their household would have been doing had migration not occurred. Migration … impacts of migration. We provide an overview and critical review of the three strands of this approach: policy experiments …

-optimistic expectations about the incomes they can earn abroad suggest excessive migration pressure. Yet there is almost no statistical … natural emigration experiment with unique survey data on would-be emigrants' probabilistic expectations about employment and … incomes in the migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution …

This issue of Regional Science and Urban Economics is the special conference issue of the 3rd AFD-World Bank Migration …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … overcome this problem, providing an experimental measure of the income gains from migration. New Zealand allows a quota of … conducted by the authors in these two countries allows experimental estimates of the income gains from migration to be obtained …

in their effective hours of labor when they move to the United States; (iii) migration reduces inequality, more …

We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and … stayers. Policy simulations are run in order to gauge the magnitude of these migration effects. Based on estimated …

This paper proposes a theory of migration decisions in which cultural traits play a role. Individuals are assumed to … diverse regions become even more diverse because of migration, while culturally homogeneous regions become even more …

We analyze the effects of governmental redistribution of income on migration patterns,using an Italian administrative … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and … stayers. Policy simulations are run in order to gauge the magnitude of these migration effects. Based on estimated …

This paper proposes a theory of migration decisions in which cultural traits play a role. Individuals are assumed to … diverse regions become even more diverse because of migration, while culturally homogeneous regions become even more …