With @jeromevalette.bsky.social & Simone Bertoli, we are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the

3rd edition of the Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration

on 23-24 June 2025 @CERDI, Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Submit until 23 February 2025 on economig2025.sciencesconf.org

With Jérôme Valette, we are thrilled to announce the

Call for Papers
for the 2nd Junior Workshop on the Economics of Migration on 25-26 June 2024, LISER, Luxembourg.

Keynotes: @gathmannch.bsky.social, @olofaslund.bsky.social & H. Rapoport

Deadline 25 February 2024 economig2024.sciencesconf.org

Conversely, mobility significantly increases welfare disparities within the less educated population, with gains of around 60% in the wealthiest départements and smaller gains of about 15% in the least connected ones.

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We also calibrate a parameter capturing accessibility to education, which appears to be quite heterogeneous across regions, with Dakar standing out.

5/12

We develop a Random Utility Model with endogenous education and migration decisions. We calibrate it with census data & Labor Force Survey data from Senegal and stress the heterogeneity in connectivity (across regions + internationally).

4/12

We first document the importance of Dakar as a destination for (high-skilled) internal migrants as well as an origin region for international emigration.
Less-educated internal migration is less concentrated.

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