Migration with Endogenous Moving Costs (original) (raw)

Migration with Endogenous Moving Costs

American Economic Review, 1996

Enrica Detragiache

William Carrington

T. Vishwanath

Abstract

We study a dynamic model of labor migration in which moving costs decrease with the number of migrants already settled in the destination. This assumption is supported by sociological studies of migrant networks. With endogenous mov-ing costs migration occurs gradually over ...

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