While scholars have long studied the economics of migration, increasing waves of international and regional migration … around the world have placed greater focus on the varied impacts of migration in recent years. Critical to this line of … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …

This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants' origin. We use an instrumental … variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that … emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender inequality is associated with promotion of more (less) progressive …

powerful push factor. We find corroborating evidence in our analysis of the gender composition of migration to Germany over the …There is a large variation across countries of origin in the gender composition of migrants coming to Germany. We argue … that women's economic rights in developing countries of origin have three effects on their migration prospects to a place …