The question whether and how climatic factors influence human migration has gained both
academic and public interest in the past years. Based on two meta-analyses, this paper …

Are the well-known facts about urbanization in the United States also true for the developing
world? We compare American metropolitan areas with analogous geographic units in Brazil …

For most of human history, populations have been relatively isolated from each other, and
only recently has there been extensive contact between peoples, flora and fauna from both …

Migration is the principal demographic process shaping patterns of human settlement, and it
serves an essential role in human development. While progress has been made in …

Despite underlying regularities in the age profile of migration, there is mounting evidence of
cross‐national variations in the ages at which migration occurs. Explanations for these …

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 …

We review developments in research on within-country migration, focusing on internal
migration in the United States. We begin by describing approaches to modeling individuals' …

Development Economics: Theory and Practice provides students and practitioners with the
perspectives and the tools they need to think analytically and critically about the current …

Compared with other demographic processes, little attention has been given to the way
levels and patterns of internal migration vary around the world. This can be traced in part to …

Technology use and adoption by firms and workers is a critical component of the process of
technological change. Relying on data from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey …