The thesis studies the applicability of the HarrisTodaro model to rural-to-urban migration processes in …

: migration and informal markets. To mitigate the problems of both migration and the informal sector, and harness their … international migration and household investments addressing the problem of brain drain and the use of remittances. Es... …

recently, the estimable Tiebout sorting model literature, has largely ignored both the costs associated with migration …. Each of these omissions could lead to biased estimates of willingness to pay. Building upon dynamic migration models from … the labor literature, I estimate a fully dynamic model of individual migration at the national level. By employing a two …

locational equilibrium due to search or migration costs or if markets take time to adjust. I provide estimates of the value of …

selection and the importance of migrant selection to labor force quality. Chapter 2 quantifies non-pecuniary migration costs … that are incurred due to selective migration along cultural traits. Chapter 3 discusses whether early performance …