Employment (RAIS-Migra - annual report on social information) and IBGE (the Brazilian Statistics Bureau). The estimated results … confirm the importance of wage differentials in determining such mobility. Furthermore, an increased skilled out-migration …

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

A key problem in the literature on the economics of migration is how emigration of an individual affects households …

This paper reviews the effect of natural disasters on human mobility or migration. Although there is an increase of … natural disasters and migration recently and more patterns to observe, the relationship remains complex. While some authors … find that disasters increase migration, others show that they have only a marginal or no effect or are even negative. Human …

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 …

International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development … and human capital accumulation in a multi-country context. We then embed this migration-education nexus into a development … accounting framework to quantify the effects of migration on development and inequality. We find that selective emigration …

employment and wages of the local population. I show that male immigrants were fully integrated into the labor market, while … female immigrants faced significant wage and employment gaps upon arrival, and their assimilation was slow. Using an IV … population's employment but not on wages. The initial displacement effects are particularly large for men, but they disappear …

result was partly to be expected, and therefore the effect of immigrants on native employment is analyzed here. Two aspects … employment into unemployment; ii) job-search effectiveness measured by the probability of moving from unemployment into … employment within one year. The quarterly Labour Force Survey data (ISTAT) from 1993 to 1997 was used. The transition …