examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that … while the declining net migration rate was reversed during the first half of the 1990s, restrictions continued to matter … during the early years of transition in the sense that net migration rates were lower in the restricted than in the …

new technological paradigm, which delayed their industrialization and, hence, their take-off to a state of sustained … development in the agricultural stage but has had a negative impact on income per capita in the course of industrialization; and … economic development in the process of industrialization. …

under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … urbanization patterns and industrial development strategies should be adopted in different economic areas to enhance labor …

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important … issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …

higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated with the gender gap in …This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. We … use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain …

Low rates of internal migration in many European countries contribute to the persistence of significant regional labor … market differences. To further our understanding of the underlying reasons I study internal migration in Germany, using the … mobility of the German population by estimating the unobserved cost of migration. I then focus on the differences between …

migration differential between college and high school graduates. IV estimates of graduation's impact on total distance moved …

We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of … is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of a region by one percentage point in increases the per capita … income growth rate in that region on average by about 0.1 percentage points, thus suggesting an impact of net migration that …

a gravity analysis, we show that current cross-regional migration is positively affected by historical dialect …

Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …, what is a sensible way of incorporating Hukou into theoretical and empirical models of internal migration? Second, to what …