How does economic modernization affect group identity? Modernization theory emphasizes how labor migration led to the … declines in transportation and communication costs. Using microdata on individuals' names and migration decisions, we quantify … identity change and its variation across space. We develop and estimate a quantitative spatial model in which migration and …

Within the conceptual framework of the Roy model, this paper provides an empirical analysis of internal migration flows … size and skill composition of internal migration flows. Persons whose skills are most mismatched with the reward structure …

population education; better-educated migrants; and increased migration in high-skilled jobs. Four-fifths of long-run income … origin areas. Increased income from international labor migration not only benefits migrants themselves, but also fosters …

This paper examines the impact of temperature changes on rural-urban migration using a 56km×56km grid cell level … rural-urban migration in poor countries and increase such migration in middle-income countries. These asymmetric migration … determine rural-to-urban migration flows. We also confirm these temperature effects using country-level observations constructed …

urbanization and structural transformation. Using household microdata from India and exogenous variation in migration opportunities …, market adaptation mitigates over three-fourths of the direct agricultural losses from urbanization. Spatial reorganization …

Industrialization and urbanization are seen as interdependent processes of modern economic development. However, the … power source by manufacturers during industrialization contributed to urbanization. While the data indicate that steam … contribute substantially to urbanization …

between urbanization and trends in aggregate economic structure, such as industrialization; and changes in the internal …