This paper reviews the recent literature on rural-urban migration in developing countries,
focusing on three key questions: What motivates or forces people to migrate? What costs do …

Abstract The United States has long been perceived as a land of opportunity for immigrants.
Yet, both in the past and today, US natives have expressed concern that immigrants fail to …

We classify the empirical literature on the wage impact of immigration into three groups,
where studies in the first two groups estimate different relative effects, and studies in the third …

By exploiting a commuting policy that led to a sharp and unexpected inflow of Czech
workers to areas along the German-Czech border, we examine the impact of an exogenous …

The past thirty years have seen a dramatic decline in the rate of income convergence across
states and in population flows to high-income places. These changes coincide with a …

What is the greatest single class of distortions in the global economy? One contender for this
title is the tightly binding constraints on emigration from poor countries. Vast numbers of …

Abstract The 1930s American Dust Bowl was an environmental catastrophe that greatly
eroded sections of the Plains. The Dust Bowl is estimated to have immediately, substantially …

In the wake of the Venezuelan crisis, Colombian migrants are returning to their place of birth.
Since 2016, however, there has been a spike of immigration to Colombia attributable to …

Syria recently suffered a once in 500-year meteorological drought followed by one of the
worst conflicts of the twenty-first century. We exploit subnational variation in drought impact …

In this review, I integrate a wide range of literature that has examined how the “geographic
mobility” of high-skilled workers creates value for organizations and individuals. Drawing on …