The European labor market allows for the border-free mobility of workers across 31 countries that cover most continent’s population. However, rates migration remain considerably lower than interstate in United States, and spatial variation terms unemployment or income levels is larger. We document patterns Europe, which include a sizable from east to west last twenty years. An analysis worker-l...

In Nepal, international labor migration to India and overseas as well as internal migration to the rural Nepalese lowlands are of a high socio-economic significance. Scholarly debates about migration in Nepal have gradually shifted from an economic to a more holistic perspective, also incorporating social dimensions. However, little evidence has been generated about internal migration to urban ...

I study the impact of East-West internal migration in Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall on wages and unemployment rates in West German local labor markets. Because migrants’ choice of destination is likely to be correlated with local labor market conditions, I instrument migration ‡ows into each western labor market with the distance to each of the East German regions sending migrants a...