A key problem in the literature on the economics of migration is how emigration of an individual affects households …

in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …

International migration not only enables individuals to earn higher wages but also exposes them to new environments … caregivers in migrant households. Using unique survey data from Moldova, we find that international migration raises parental … on GDP growth shocks in the destination countries and migration networks. We conclude that aspirations are a highly …

intensive investment) and labor thinning (net out-migration). I propose a constant-returns neoclassical model of economic …

and migration flows to gauge the strength of the relationship and the stability of the relationship over the business … strongly related to that region's fortunes. We also find that migration flows to the metropolitan regions of Auckland …

immigration on unemployment. The transitory restrictions for worker migration after the EU enlargements of 2004 and 2007 exemplify … order to account for unobserved heterogeneity as well as the potential endogeneity of migration flows and the high …

endogeneity of migration through an instrumental variable estimation our empirical results show that international migration has a … the capital obtained from international migration only to overcome liquidity constraints for subsistence production … whereas migration itself seems to be the superior investment option compared to other productive activities such as livestock …