quantify three distinct barriers that prevent East Germans from migrating west to obtain a higher wage: migration costs …

Employment (RAIS-Migra - annual report on social information) and IBGE (the Brazilian Statistics Bureau). The estimated results … confirm the importance of wage differentials in determining such mobility. Furthermore, an increased skilled out-migration …

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking … destination areas. In this paper, we show that this temporary feature of migration can be linked to land rights insecurity. As … village land ownership remains collective and as land use rights can be periodically reallocated, individual out-migration can …

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

.S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …

This paper reviews the effect of natural disasters on human mobility or migration. Although there is an increase of … natural disasters and migration recently and more patterns to observe, the relationship remains complex. While some authors … find that disasters increase migration, others show that they have only a marginal or no effect or are even negative. Human …

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

Global migration is heavily skill-biased, with tertiary-educated workers being four times more likely to migrate than … workers with a lower education. In this paper, we quantify the global impact of this skill bias in migration. Based on a … the skill bias in migration, while a small number of sending countries is significantly worse off. The negative effect in …

This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of … first isolate the outcomes of interest - income, employment status, household wealth based on both productive and non … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …

While Switzerland's recent growth of employment was high in historical and international perspective, the reasons for …, forecasters systematically underestimated the growth of domestic employment. Finally, we highlight that immigration was not only a …