quantify three distinct barriers that prevent East Germans from migrating west to obtain a higher wage: migration costs …

Migration in its various forms, such as economic migration, is a central issue in contemporary research and politics …

allocation of labor force and employment. The basic frameworks are the benchmark dualistic scenarios. A single-input analysis of … interact with equilibrium formation.We report the main effects on equilibrium local expected wages, supply, employment and …

gain (𝐵𝐺) have been studied extensively while 𝐴𝐷 has not, I examine migration's impact on ability (𝑎) as well as on …; ii) Migration reduces (raises) home country residents' (migrants') average ability, with an ambiguous (positive) impact … fraction of our estimate. Thus, in order to correctly assess the impact of skilled migration, home and host countries …

in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …

. 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 provides a micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration analyzing how financial constraints … determine migration trends. We build a RUM model in which we explicitly introduce the budget constraint in the migration … decision: individuals cannot afford migrating to a destination for which the migration cost (which depends on the immigration …

migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of the labor literature, a search model and a Roy … cognitive ability. Longer migration episodes lead to stronger positive selection on both education and ability, as its … permanent migration, where search costs are higher. Labor market frictions explain observed complex network-skill interactions. …

.S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …