Economic research on labor migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the … remittances of overseas migrant labor in the sending country's economy. Recently, due in no small part to the availability of rich … microdata, more attention has been paid to the effects of migration on the lives of family members left behind. This paper …

Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are able to match with migrating grooms. Guided by a … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …

This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of … internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who … differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of migration. We use data on male migrants from three rounds of Turkish …

This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of … internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who … differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of migration. We use data on male migrants from three rounds of Turkish …

This paper examines migration trends in the European Union since the enlargements of 2004-2007, which brought 100 … migration trends and show how European integration depleted the labor force in new member countries. Several of them lost 10% of … their population since 2006, most of it via negative net migration. In 2019, 18% of Romanians, 14% of Lithuanians, 13 …

educational opportunities. These results extend to internal migration, implying that highly vulnerable populations are trapped in …

and their implications regarding sectoral labour allocation are further explored. Using panel data of 2,200 households in … remittances and seems to last (even increase) for up to three periods after the migratory shock occurs. Interestingly, there is …

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …