Empirical studies on internal labor migration are usually based on observed patterns of net flows into local labor … revolves around average and individual outcomes from migration. Using a sample of 39 000 Swedish regional migrants, this paper … predict their placement within this distribution. We show that returns to migration do matter, especially for the more …

Empirical studies of international labor migration, modelling average outcomes, suggest migrants move to enhance … internal migration are mostly captured by the higher educated. Much if not most of migration outcomes are however a wash and … capital motivated migration. …

and future research is needed to see if this finding as well as the observed migration pattern arise from different …

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

international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is … twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part of the migration literature that is concerned with the …

endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …