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

with that of migration and addresses this gap by developing a theory of a growing phenomenon: the transnational social … mobility of minorities. Using the US census and the American Community Survey, 14 groups of minorities (e.g., British …

the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …

different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …

For a long time, migration has been subject to intensive economic research. Nevertheless, empirical evidence regarding … the determinants of migration still appears to be incomplete. In this paper, we analyze the effects of socio-economic and … and unemployment benefits have positive effects on migration. Also good education and health systems tend to attract …

Using data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we investigate the impact of health on domestic migration within … distribution reduces mobility by 32-40%. Non-random attrition from the panel implies that these are lower bounds. By contrast, we … find evidence that, among older men, there is higher mobility at the top and bottom of the health distribution than there …

Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe … Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … countries, and attempt to reconcile the features of migration flows with our predictions for earnings by destination. We find …