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 …

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 …

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 …

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 reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as … generates additional identification problems that have remained largely ignored. To tackle this second form of selectivity …

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 …