Intro -- General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction: Migration and Population Mobility -- PART ONE: MODELS -- Toward a Model of Migration in Latin America -- A Decision-Making Model for the Study of Migration -- Some Perspectives on Balkan Migration Patterns (with Particular Reference...

In this article we analyze the interdependent issues of urbanization, growth, and globalization by presenting key empirical facts and relevant underlying economic theories on each. We look more closely, but without providing a detailed formal analysis, at a model by Baldwin and Forslid (2000)...

Die politische und planerische Diskussion über Metropolen ist stark von der Vorstellung bestimmt, die Globalisierung könnte zu grundlegenden Veränderungen im Städtesystem führen, und diese Veränderungen könnten ganz besonders Städte der höchsten Hierarchiestufen betreffen. Der Aufsatz...

This paper discusses what determines the preferences of individuals for redistribution. We review the theoretical literature and provide a framework to incorporate various effects previously studied separately in the literature. We then examine empirical evidence for the US, using the General...