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Reflections on Migration Dynamics in Northern Ghana from the ‘Crossroads Perspective’
(2016-02)
The paper analyses mobility patterns in Northern Ghana while reflecting also on my ‘positionality’ as researcher from the area thus critically analysing mobility patterns and processes of negotiating social boundaries and ...
Repercussions of negatively selective migration for the behavior of non-migrants when preferences are social
(2019-04)
We study how the work effort and output of non-migrants in a village economy are affected when a member of the village population migrates. Given that individuals dislike low relative income, and that migration modifies ...
Migrating for children’s better future: Intergenerational Mobility of Internal Migrants’ Children in Indonesia
(2019-12)
Internal migration dominates population mobility in Indonesia; according to the 2010 census, there were almost 30 million permanent migrants, around 12.5 percent of the population. The effects of this internal migration ...
Global integration and world migration
(2017-02)
This paper explores the following chain of conjectures: rising use of the internet, the widespread access to global information, and intensified communication between regions and countries brought about, for example, by ...
On the taxing of migrants’ earnings while retaining a migrant workforce
(2018-07)
We study policies that are aimed at retaining a migrant workforce in a Gulf State while introducing a tax on migrant earnings. We single out Qatar as a case study. We consider two types of migrants: target migrants, and ...
On the train to brain gain in rural China
(2017-01)
This study investigates the well-researched relationship between migration and the formation of human capital in the source region using a novel instrument: the existence of a local train station. We make use of Chinese ...