While scholars have long studied the economics of migration, increasing waves of international and regional migration … around the world have placed greater focus on the varied impacts of migration in recent years. Critical to this line of … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …

across migration and education decisions as well as within groups of individuals such as the family are explicitly controlled … detected at the individual level while positive migrant selection is found at the family level. -- Migration ; education …This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect the probability of high school graduation …

migration propensity, due to migration costs; a larger network of past emigrants from the same community mitigates this …, is one important driver of emigration flows in Egypt. However, these incentives turn into effective migration only in …

across migration and education decisions as well as within groups of individuals such as the family are explicitly controlled …This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect the probability of high school graduation … are estimated to control for the endogeneity of education and migrant network variables. Correlation of unobservables …

Outward migration data from the Philippines exhibit spatial clustering. This is likely due to information spillover … effects - fellow migrants share information with other neighboring migrants, thereby lowering the costs of migration. To … growth in the number of succeeding migrants. We find that current and past migration from one municipality induces …

Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we …-capital structure of current migration flows. Our analysis exploits a bilateral data set on international migration by educational … various determinants of migration, we find diasporas increase migration flows, lower their average educational level and lead …

the past literature. However, using instrumental variables based on migration enclaves, we show that immigrants have a …

in the host country. While the existing literature explains the effect of networks on migration decisions through the … migration. Yet we find no evidence that the quality of the network affects the timing of migration. …