Using detailed microdata, we document how migration-dependent households are especially vulnerable during the COVID-19 … and observational variation in prior migration dependence. We report 25 per cent greater declines in earnings and fourfold … greater prevalence of food insecurity among migrant households since March. Causes include lower migration rates, less …

conflict, and argue that the findings are consistent with distress migration. Despite an increase in the willingness to migrate … following locust outbreaks, very few people may actually be able to migrate as they lack the necessary resources. As migration …

of migration and remittances (that is, a 'private safety net' built around solidarity within families) rather than the …

We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …

Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage … the diaspora, investigating on a macro-level the role of migration in cultural convergence across countries and on a micro …

This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of … first isolate the outcomes of interest - income, employment status, household wealth based on both productive and non … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …

Understanding how internal labour migration affects the agricultural sector is important for all developing countries … face in the presence of a critical level of labour migration. This paper investigates the effect of internal labour … migration on agricultural productivity of rural households in Uganda. Since households select themselves into migration this …

Using height as a proxy for physical productivity of labour, this paper estimates the selection of Mexican migration to … impact of random shocks on short-run shifts in selection into migration. The results suggest that the first Mexican migrants … of migration. …

International migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites …