This paper presents a critical survey of theories of migration, their welfare and policy
implications and their empirical relevance. We also develop some extensions to the theory …

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 …

La migración de retorno es considerada como un caso especial de la migración, no
obstante su estudio no es un tema sencillo, dependiendo del momento histórico y lugar de …

The authors of several essays in this volume, including Hasia R. Diner, Susan Hardwick,
and Barbara Schmitter Heisler (Chapers 1, 6, 4), express regret regarding the virtual …

A história disciplinar das teorias sobre as migrações é, em vários aspectos, atribulada. O
tema das migrações foi largamente ignorado pelos autores clássicos das principais ciências …

We examine the inter‐regional migration of university graduates from 1991 to 2003 in
Finland. The results show that time matters: two‐years before and during the graduation …

Residential mobility and housing choice are studied within a variety of research traditions.
The traditions are classified into four approaches, depending on the conceptualization of …

Thorough and authoritative, Regional and Urban Economics and Economic Development:
Theory and Methods provides students with a sound approach to analyzing the economic …

Despite growing efforts to conceptualize residential mobility and migration as long‐term
trajectories, because of methodological challenges and the lack of adequate data, most …

The authors examine the impact of mobility on the labor-force status of two-earner
households in the United States, in a longitudinal context. There has recently been a …