In this article, we employ a panel household survey from Tajikistan to study labor migrants' location choices in Russia …. We find that labor migrants from Tajikistan consider a wide variety of economic, demographic, and geographical … characteristics of Russian regions when making location choices. We also find that experienced migrants are less responsive to current …

by showing that the net benefits of genetic distance are strongly decreasing for low-skilled migrants with increasing … genetic distance, while high-skilled migrants are less responsive to genetic distance in general. Results are robust to …

by showing that the net benefits of genetic distance are strongly decreasing for low-skilled migrants with increasing … genetic distance, while high-skilled migrants are less responsive to genetic distance in general. Results are robust to …

The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …