International migration decisions and costly information acquisition

Migrations internationales et acquisition d' informations

Simone Bertoli, Jesús Fernández-Huertas Moraga and Lucas Guichard

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Abstract: International migration decisions and costly information acquisition Migrants are confronted with the uncertainty about the returns that the might enjoy in the various destinations, and they can decide to gather information in order to reduce this uncertainty. Including costly information acquisition in the location-choice problem that migrants face allows us to refine our understanding of the pro-cyclical character of international migration flows. Read in french(/toutes-les-actualites/zoom-sur-la-recherche/migrations-internationales-et-acquisition-dinformations-218587.kjsp?RH=1505391225734#/admin) The decision about whether and where to migrate is portrayed as an investment decision that reflects a

Keywords: Migration; internationale (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-07
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