In the context of an emerging focus on highly skilled migration throughout the OECD area,
the question under which circumstances migrants can be expected to be relatively skilled is …

The relation between income and migration intentions can be monotonically decreasing,
increasing, or inverse U-shaped, dependent on the level of migration cost relative to wealth …

IT IS DIFFICULT TO FIND A MORE dramatic episode of economic dislocation in peacetime
during the twentieth century than that associated with the reunification of Germany. It is a sad …

Following the unification of Germany in 1990, eastern wages and unemployment both rose
rapidly. I demonstrate that rising wages reduced eastern emigration greatly, while rising …

The willingness to migrate and locational choice may be influenced by others' choices or
plans, particularly if the “other people,” such as family and friends, are migrants, former …

Who intends to leave Africa and what drives people to emigrate? For the cases of Ghana,
Senegal, Morocco and Egypt, we examined peoples' stated intentions to emigrate. The large …

We study the determinants of East–West migration within Germany during the period 1990–
2006, using administrative data, the German Microcensus and the German Socio‐Economic …

In many countries, international migrants show a high tendency to become entrepreneurs. In
the literature this has often been attributed to discrimination, ethnic networks, and …

A rntz M. What attracts human capital? Understanding the skill composition of interregional
job matches in Germany, Regional Studies. By examining pecuniary and non-pecuniary …

Do people follow up on their intentions? In this paper we confront the emigration intentions
formed by inhabitants of the Netherlands during the year 2004-2005 and the emigration …