benefits on the migration decision. While benefits simply increase the expected gain for risk neutral individuals, they work as … an insurance device for risk averse migrants; the results for the two groups might differ. Thus, the migration decision … engage in migration. Yet, introducing unemployment benefits also makes them select a different set of countries. The …

relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been put forth which hint at the … possibility that in the early stages of development economic progress might lead to more migration, even if income differentials … migration to Germany from 86 Asian and African countries from 1981 to 1995. The results confirm the importance of financial …

Africa that killed dozens and displaced thousands of immigrants from neighboring countries, we estimate migration intentions … networks in the sending community in shaping changes in the expressed intentions to migrate. We find that the migration … families have no access to social networks. The results illustrate that networks at origin insure risks related to migration …

between high school and post-secondary education. We estimate that the reform enhanced the annual migration rate of high … their baseline migration rate is 3.7 %. The effect fades several years after the completion of secondary studies. Copyright …