Empirical studies on internal labor migration are usually based on observed patterns of net flows into local labor … revolves around average and individual outcomes from migration. Using a sample of 39 000 Swedish regional migrants, this paper … predict their placement within this distribution. We show that returns to migration do matter, especially for the more …

Empirical studies of international labor migration, modelling average outcomes, suggest migrants move to enhance … internal migration are mostly captured by the higher educated. Much if not most of migration outcomes are however a wash and … capital motivated migration. …

This paper studies the migration response of the youth from new EU member states to disparate conditions in an enlarged … duration. We find that migration intentions are high among those not married and among males with children, but both categories … are also overrepresented among people with only temporary as opposed to long-term or permanent migration plans. Whereas …

Interstate migration in the United States has declined by 50 percent since the mid-1980s. This paper studies the role … in the labor market, which affects the migration rate of all workers. We document that an increase in the share of middle …-aged workers (those ages 40 to 60) in the working-age population in one state causes a large fall in the migration rate of all …

while it reduces incentives for migration of workers. …

, creating a "brain drain" in the sending country. In reality, migration is typically temporary: Workers migrate, find employment … circular migration can be costly to both sending and receiving countries. …