Removing barriers to internal migration can boost a country’s productivity, albeit modestly and with heterogonous effects on original populations

Low-skilled natives tend to be most affected by low-skilled migrants, but are high-skilled natives most affected by high-skilled migrants?

The design and incentives of work programmes need to be aligned with the skills demanded by participating firms and the labour market at large

What are the trade-offs between unemployment benefits and severance pay?

Missing markets, price effects, and dynamic and general equilibrium effects help explain why poor people do not work less when given cash

Government policies that facilitate internal migration not only drive economic growth, but also improve the welfare of rural households

Cities don't make workers (much) more productive, but productive workers move to cities

India’s system of ‘fragmented entitlements’, whereby state residents get preferential treatment by the state government, hinders internal migration

Technological and institutional environments, rather than differences in human capital, are behind variations in skill premia across countries