A framework that yields different possible patterns of migration as optimal solutions to a simple utility maximization … problem is presented and explored. It is shown that seasonal migration arises as an optimal endogenous response to a …-long migration is feasible. -- Seasonal migration ; Optimal types of migration ; Cost of living differential ; Cost of separation …

capital. Yet a strictly positive probability of migration to a richer country, by raising both the level of human capital … migration policy the welfare of all workers is higher than in the absence of this policy. -- migration ; human capital formation …

dynamics of migration. -- migration dynamics ; migrants' transfers ; follow-up migration …

A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid "social humiliation". In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …

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

High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … bias in migration significantly increases welfare in most receiving countries. Moreover, due to a more efficient global … that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …

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

This paper provides a micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration analyzing how financial constraints … determine migration trends. We build a RUM model in which we explicitly introduce the budget constraint in the migration … decision: individuals cannot afford migrating to a destination for which the migration cost (which depends on the immigration …