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Data from a bespoke Totaljobs survey of workers in the UK are used to revisit issue of workers’ willingness to migrate in order to enhance their career opportunities. Demographic variables such as age, gender, and family circumstances are found to have high explanatory power. Education is also...
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During the African American Great Migration, millions of blacks left the Southern USA in favor of cities in the North …. Despite the social and economic consequences of this migration, the question of its impacts on labor markets in the North has … aggregate Northern labor market to provide new evidence on the effects of the Great Migration on wages in the North, redoubling …
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This paper examines the impact of migration on earnings inequality using 1940-2015 data from the U.S. census and … in earnings inequality and migration, and subsequently analyze regional and state patterns. Using 1940 birthplace … information to instrument for migration, I find that recent immigration mildly increases the top decile earnings share, while …
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This paper estimates the impacts of climate change in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) on migration and other economic outcomes …. I develop a quantitative spatial model that captures the role of trade networks, migration barriers, and agricultural …, by the end of the century, reduces SSA real GDP per capita by 1.8 percent and displaces 4 million individuals. Migration …
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