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 …

This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap … derived from a random utility maximization model of migration that accounts for migrants' gender. Instrumental variable … estimates indicate that increasing gender equality in economic or political rights generally deepens the GMG, i.e., it reduces …

, international family migration remains an understudied field. This article provides an overview of the literature on gender and … of individual migration and can gain from incorporating gender-theories and the recent developments in household models. …Most migration decisions are not made by isolated individuals but by families or entire households. However …

's agency to make or otherwise influence migration decisions. These two constraining effects on the female share in migrant … powerful push factor. We find corroborating evidence in our analysis of the gender composition of migration to Germany over the …There is a large variation across countries of origin in the gender composition of migrants coming to Germany. We argue …