Determinants of the Choice of Migration Destination

This paper examines migrants choice of destination conditional on migration. To this end, an empirical strategy is designed which remedies both migration selection and unobserved heterogeneity problems. The study uses data from two rounds of Nepal Living Standard Surveys and a Population Census and examine how the choice of a migration destination is influenced by income differentials and other covariates.

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Year of publication:	2010-03
Authors:	Fafchamps, Marcel ; Shilpi, Forhad
Institutions:	eSocialSciences
Subject:	migration \| Nepal \| living standards \| empirical strategy \| population census \| income differentials \| covariates \| heterogeneity \| language \| ethnic \| destination

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Series:	Working Papers.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	English
Notes:	Institutional Papers
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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