disparities. Registered migration rates have declined dramatically since the last years of Soviet era, yet they are high by … both on gross and net migration flows. Age and education effects are consistent with predictions of the human capital model … of migration. Unemployed persons, as well as commuters between regions, are significantly more likely to become migrants …

disparities. Registered migration rates have declined dramatically since the last years of Soviet era, yet they are high by … both on gross and net migration flows. Age and education effects are consistent with predictions of the human capital model … of migration. Unemployed persons, as well as commuters between regions, are significantly more likely to become migrants …

during the transition period as well as in the years to come. Updated inter-regional migration rates show that Latvian … countervailing factors; outflow rates tended to be larger from high unemployment regions. Analysis of individual migration decisions … made in 1989-1999 and migration plans for 1999-2002 confirms significance of economic incentives for geographical mobility …

selection and the importance of migrant selection to labor force quality. Chapter 2 quantifies non-pecuniary migration costs … that are incurred due to selective migration along cultural traits. Chapter 3 discusses whether early performance …

to established ethnic networks, and acquired more years of pre-migration schooling. Using a doubly robust treatment … effect estimator and the IV method, the study finds that the endogenous post-migration education in the host country …

existing jobs; however, if a “substitution†situation is the reality immigration can lead to out-migration of the non …