The thesis studies the applicability of the HarrisTodaro model to rural-to-urban migration processes in …

: migration and informal markets. To mitigate the problems of both migration and the informal sector, and harness their … international migration and household investments addressing the problem of brain drain and the use of remittances. Es... …

This paper investigates the impact of political leaders' migration experience on the quality of their leadership. We … results are confirmed by various robustness tests. They propose a new channel through which migration may affect politics in …

may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between … trade, development and migration. Empirical studies focusing on international migration from LDCs so far are very scarce …. The paper utilizes a new dataset that is based on migration from 86 African and Asian countries to Germany. Information is …

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important … issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …