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 …

various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …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 …

African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU). We focus on migration ows within the WAEMU countries to disentangle the … show that migration in the WAEMU is associated with a decline in female labor participation, as it is primarily motivated … the labor division between women and men and show that shocks may disrupt long-standing gender roles. The results are …

various channels. Men's migration may lead to women taking over household decisions regarding education expenditures … changes in women's decision making is expected to operate via permanent migration when the men are absent. The effect of …This paper analyses the effect of migration of men from rural areas in Pakistan on children in households "left behind …

Very few labor-based pathways for regular migration are available for people in Northern Central America, often called …-based migration channels in the region. It then argues that extending those channels is a necessary complement to asylum reform even …

increasing presence of first mover migrant women (coming from Latin America and Eastern Europe) is associated with higher … marital disruption on data from the nationally – representative 2009 Family and Social Subjects survey. We found that the … separation risks among natives, especially for couples with lower human capital. Our findings add to our understanding of family …

that women's economic rights in developing countries of origin have three effects on their migration prospects to a place … like Germany that is far away and difficult to reach. First, the lower are women's economic rights the fewer women have … access to and control over the resources needed to migrate to Germany. Second, the lower are the rights the lower is women …