This paper studies how potential work migrants infer mortality rates from incidents of migrant deaths. In the context … implies large changes in mortality rates perceived by potential migrants. Models of learning fallacies better explain the …

Do potential migrants have accurate information about the risks and returns of migrating abroad? And, given the … paper sets up and analyzes a randomized field experiment among 3,319 potential work migrants from Nepal to Malaysia and the … destination, and tracks their migration decision three months later. The findings show that potential migrants severely …

affluent North and poorer South, the results show that migrants from either region only affect Northern exports to the South …. This is intuitive since in general countries of the North export more differentiated products and information barriers … between these regions are greatest. A country-level analysis further shows that migrants may both create and divert trade …

products and new cost comparison information sources rely heavily on the financial literacy of migrants. This paper presents … the results of a randomized experiment designed to measure the impact of providing financial literacy training to migrants …

time? Using data from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 Censuses, this paper finds that the performance of migrants from countries … with lower initial occupational placement levels improves at a higher rate compared with that of migrants originating from …

migrants around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other … the age and gender composition of migrants, whether young migrants move alone or with a parent or spouse, their … occupations than older migrants or native youth. Nevertheless, there is also considerable heterogeneity among youth migrants: 29 …

enforcement mechanism. This paper investigates the link between the presence of migrants in the United States and U.S. FDI in the … migrants' countries of origin, taking into account the potential endogeneity concerns. The results suggest that U.S. FDI abroad … is positively correlated with the presence of migrants from the host country. The data further indicate that the …