This paper studies the role of internal migration in income convergence across regions in Japan. Neoclassical theory … predicts that migration should have been an important source of convergence, but regression results suggest otherwise. The … paper investigates the possibility that this discrepancy is explained by the effects of migration on population composition …

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 …

determined both the attractiveness of different US counties at the time of migration, as well as current levels of development …. The results indicate that while there is a strong and positive impact associated with overall migration, the national …

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 …

. Overall, these results strongly support the productivity gains that can be expected from further migration and urbanisation in …

infection and can take migration decisions before their health status is publicly observable. In a 2-period model we study under … which conditions the presence of quarantine measures may lead to inefficient outcomes as individuals' interest in migration …

Migration research has been quite successful in explaining changes in migration flows. Less satisfactory are its …

This paper summarizes the study design of the Rural–Urban Migration in China and Indonesia (RUMiCI) project. We first … identifying the migration status of each household in the sampling frame, using a presurvey listing. This is followed by a …