restrictions. Exploting this exogenous variation, we study the effect of migration on urbanisation and the distribution of … population. In particular, we test if migration inflows led to displacement, path dependence, or agglomeration in destination … migration shocks can foster urbanisation in the medium run. …

constraints), they have not been examined in a systematic way. In this paper, we develop a novel migration accounting methodology … and use it to quantify the main drivers of the mobility transition curve. Our analysis distinguishes between migration …-middle-income countries. Finally, our methodology sheds light on the microfoundations of migration decisions. …

A unitarian model of family migration in which families may discount wives' private gains is used to derive testable … predictions regarding the type of couples that select into migrating. The empirical tests show that gender neutral family … migration cannot be rejected against the alternative of husband centered migration. Couples are more likely to migrate if …

Young women outnumber young men in cities in many countries during periods of economic growth and urbanization. This … gender imbalance among young urbanites is more pronounced in larger cities. We use the gradual rollout of special economic … zones across China as a quasi-experiment to establish the causes of this gender imbalance. Our analysis suggests that a key …

We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal migration in the U.S. We begin by … describing approaches to modelling individuals' migration decisions and equilibrium outcomes across local areas. Next, we … summarize evidence regarding the impact of migration on individuals' outcomes, implications of migration for local labor market …

robust to controlling for potentially endogenous return migration and labor force participation. Controls for fixed effects …

We analyse the migration movements of power couples (couples where both members have at least a college degree), half … tied-mover models. Partnered college graduates like to live in major cities regardless of their gender or the …

. Earnings maximization largely explains sorting patterns among males, while gender discrimination has a large effect on the …

-EU migration and productivity, and some weaker evidence of a negative association between EU migration and productivity, although …

We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic … migrants in absence of migration to evaluate the effect of regional migration when the effect of migration is purely … compositional (i.e., when wages are treated as exogenous). We find that regional migration increases average wages by 1.8% and …