This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...

As a controversial topic in developed and developing countries, migration has been a dynamic field explained on the basis of cause and effect by economists. Migration is the movement of people from one settlement to another. In all countries, migration occurs as the result of economic, social,...

ILO pub. Article comprising a case study of relationships between internal migration (esp. Rural migration), technological change and agricultural production in India - concludes from a local level survey undertaken in the Punjab region in 1977 that rural migration and return migration improve...

This article provides an empirical analysis of the role of labor mobility in the intranational (interprovincial) macroeconomic adjustment process in Canada. This analysis is based on a pooled time-series cross-section econometric setup of net migration flows across age groups between the ten...

Cet article est centré sur le début de carrière des employés et ouvriers. Il s’agit essentiellement d’identifier le rôle de la mobilité géographique dans l’insertion professionnelle des jeunes, occupant des professions « employé » et « ouvrier », trois ans après leur...

Since the late 80s the traditional pattern of interrexional migration in Spain, from the poorest regions with higher unemployment rates to the richer ones, coexists with a flow in the opposite direction called "inverse migration." This feature, common to the most developed countries in the OECD,...

This paper carries out an internal analysis of convergence and migration in Romania at county level over the period 1995-2008. The econometric technique applied is the two-way fixed effects panel data model which controls for spatial dependence between neighboring counties. The main results show...

In the wider area of mobility and space, the article focuses on the issues regarding the configuration of urban social structure through the migration theme. In Romania, the phenomena has begun decades ago, and evolved in close relationship with the main coordinates of “transition”. In the...

ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper comprising a draft chapter from an anticipated guide to survey data collecting on internal migration, labour mobility and employment (esp. In developing countries - develops a questionnaire to determine basic household activities (wages and unpaid work,...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper comprising a draft chapter on remittances from an anticipated guide to data collecting in internal migration surveys in developing countries - presents a simplified economic analysisof transfers to and from out-migrants, remittances in connection with return...