A key problem in the literature on the economics of migration is how emigration of an individual affects households … large, but transparent assumptions regarding behaviors of household members and selectivity of migrants allow identification …

favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the …This paper explores the theoretical issues and the empirical literature regarding the selectivity of migrants. Although … the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The …

This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as … generates additional identification problems that have remained largely ignored. To tackle this second form of selectivity …

I document a new fact about mobility within the United States. County-to-county migration and commuting drop discretely …

This paper uses the quantitative spatial model with heterogeneous locations linked by costly goods trade, migration and … commuting developed in Monte et al. (2018) to address the workings of local labor markets in Germany. One key contribution … commuting measures have very little predictive power for these general equilibrium elasticities when the housing share is small …

commuting distances. The results illustrate that graduates are drawn to prospering regions with ample job opportunities …, supposedly in order to advance their careers. They choose their places of residence so as to balance their commuting distances …

We study migration and commuting among participants in labour market programmes and individuals in open unemployment … entity, we find interregional commuting to be relatively more important than migration as a means of geographical labour … than the openly unemployed. In this case, this is due to the relatively higher probability of commuting that predominates …

commuting and migration decisions. The approach of the TIGER model is to model cross-border related transport policies on a …), distinguishing between public and private transport, and for different transport motives. Commuting trips will be modelled in detail … are linked by interregional trade flows, transport trips and migration. In a similar way the model can be extended to all …

highlighted, followed by an overview of the main functionality, which will be illustrated using migration data. Finally, some …