Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, this paper focuses on pre-migration employment dynamics … market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable … positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The size of the gains varies …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …

cognitive ability. Longer migration episodes lead to stronger positive selection on both education and ability, as its … migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of the labor literature, a search model and a Roy … model. Theory and empirics show temporary migrants are intermediately selected on education, with weaker selection on …

in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … education of her children back home. We find that this aspirations effect increases the average skill level in the society for a … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population …

emigrants. Individuals self-select into migration and locations based on education. Migration to urban centres increases with … migration costs, as well as by higher investment in education (for rural migrants). Migration prospects to urban centres drive … education choices of rural individuals. Hence, migration policies can be used to stimulate educational attainment in rural …

We describe an unsupervised method for delineating functional labour market areas (LMAs) in national commuting networks …

This paper investigates how the size of co-ethnic networks at the time of arrival affect the economic success of … with larger co-ethnic networks are more likely to be employed at first, but have a lower probability of investing in human …