Sub-Saharan Africa is becoming an increasingly important destination for international migration. The region hosts … immigrants in Sub-Saharan African countries that uses a causal framework. Using a survey experiment in Uganda and Senegal, we …

strengthens their inclination to resort to migration as a means of reducing this heightened stress. Other things held constant …

In this paper we consider a population of would-be migrants in a developing country. To begin with, this population is … divided into two sets: those who save by themselves to pay for the cost of their migration, and those who pool their savings … with the savings of another would-be migrant to pay for the cost. Saving jointly brings forward the timing of migration …

wages. Using a survey experiment among international students in Germany, I investigate whether information on the monetary …

Received migration research has it that higher relative deprivation strengthens the incentive for people to migrate …, and that migration is often a risky enterprise. Relative deprivation has been seen as a push factor in migration, and the … level of risk involved in migration has been understood to reduce its attraction. Here we show a positive relationship …

We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host country´s society, and economic assimilation as … optimal to acquire a relatively limited quantity of human capital; with fellow migrants constituting his only comparison group …

We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host country's society, and economic assimilation as … optimal to acquire a relatively limited quantity of human capital; with fellow migrants constituting his only comparison group …

We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction … between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host country's society, and economic assimilation as … optimal to acquire a relatively limited quantity of human capital; with fellow migrants constituting his only comparison group …