able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …

The Paper studies determinants of internal migration in Russia. Using panel data on gross region-to-region migration … flows in 1992-99, we estimate the effect of economic, political and social factors. Although overall migration is rather low … prosperous both in terms of employment prospects and public goods. Migration is, however, constrained by the lack of liquidity …

Does migration facilitate regional adjustment to idiosyncratic shocks? The evidence from post-communist economies … indicates that the efficacy of migration in reducing inter-regional unemployment and wage differentials has in fact been rather … low. High wages appear to encourage - and, similarly, high unemployment tends to discourage - overall migration – inbound …

central planning to a market economy. I show that while the intensity of migration is low and has even fallen during the … effect in facilitating labour market adjustment to employment shocks. Using aggregate inter-regional migration data and … survey data on past and prospective migration and the willingness to move, I find that economic factosr play little role in …

after the incentive is removed. The migration rate is 10 percentage points higher in treatment areas a year later, and three … re-migration, and by conducting a new experiment with a migration insurance treatment. We document several pieces of …

migration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has left a legacy on the economic development of the counties where … look at the geography of migration across US counties in the 48 continental states. We then link this settlement pattern of … number of factors which may have influenced both the location of migrants at the time of migration, as well as for the …