J61

Christoph Albert · Albrecht Glitz · Joan Llull

Why have immigrant-native wage gaps widened substantially across arrival cohorts in the United States since the 1960s, and why has the speed of wage convergence slowed? The paper argues that the …

Clement Imbert · Gabriel Ulyssea

Does rural-urban migration increase or decrease urban informality, and through what mechanisms — and does the answer depend on the time horizon?

Greg Howard · Hansen Shao

Howard and Shao document a new empirical regularity in U.S. internal migration: the t-year interstate migration rate — defined as the share of people living in a different state than they did t years …

Natalie Bau · Gaurav Khanna · Corinne Low · Alessandra Voena

This paper asks whether dowry — a transfer from the bride's family to the groom's household upon marriage, prevalent throughout India — enables male migration by providing liquidity that compensates …