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 …

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 …

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

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 …

relatively poor. We document this reversal using data on urbanization patterns and population density, which, we argue, proxy for … industrialization opportunities …

The Great Migration from the US South is a prominent theme in economic history research not only because it was a prime … example of large scale internal migration, but also because it had far-reaching ramifications for American economic, social …, and migrants’ outcomes, and then offers a more speculative interpretation of how the Great Migration fostered the …

This paper joins a few very recent attempts to analyze migration in the awareness of the family context. In contrast to … most of them, my focus is exclusively on the family context. The paper defines family ties relevant to migration decisions … and explains their effects on the probability of migration, on consequent changes in employment and earnings of family …

-city migration flows of natives and older immigrants are largely" unaffected by new immigrant inflows. Inflows of new immigrants are …

We review patterns in migration within the US over the past thirty years. Internal migration has fallen noticeably … since the 1980s, reversing increases from earlier in the century. The decline in migration has been widespread across … decline in migration remains elusive and requires further research, we find only limited roles for the housing market …