Geographic mobility is a celebrated feature of American life. Deciding where to live is seen not only as a key personal … right to travel is safeguarded by the Constitution, these mobility decisions are not entirely free. In terms of moving long … distances, employment and family reasons are central, and a regime of employment and family law “mobility measures” play a …

This paper proposes tests for stochastic dominance in mobility based on the empirical likelihood ratio. Two views of … mobility are considered, either based on measures of absolute mobility or on transition matrices. First-order and second …-order dominance conditions in mobility are first derived, followed by the derivation of statistical inferences techniques to test a …

In this paper, we present theory and global evidence on how mobile internet access affects desire and plans to emigrate …. Our theory predicts that mobile internet access increases desire and plans to emigrate. Our empirical analysis combines …-middle-income countries. In line with our theory, an important mechanism appears to be that access to the mobile internet lowers the cost of …