receiving regions and shorter commuting distances favor positive selection of commuters. Empirically all types of commuters in … strongly selected than cross-border commuters, selectivity of commuters reduces with distance commuted and cross …

behavior to control for the selectivity of migration. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 …Prior work has modeled individuals’ migration and remittance behavior separately, and reported mixed empirical support … for various remittance motivations. This study offers an integrated approach, and considers migration as a mechanism for …

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 …

This paper contributes to the sparse literature on the impact of temporary migration on fertility in origin areas. It … examines the case of male labour migration from post-Soviet Tajikistan, a significant and relatively recent phenomenon …. Fertility and migration models are solved simultaneously to account for cross-process correlation. There is clear evidence for a …

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 …