Migration, Job Change, and Wage Growth: A New Perspective on the Pecuniary Return to Geographic Mobility

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Immigration, In-Migration, Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom (2007, background): “People who lose their jobs are less likely to migrate across regions than people who are changing jobs voluntarily (Yankow, 2003).”
Unobservable, but unimportant? The relevance of usually unobserved variables for the evaluation of labor market policies☆ (2017, background): “Finally, workers geographic mobility is also a driving factor of their economic outcomes (e.g. Yankow, 2003), while car access seems to be of special importance (Gurley and Bruce, 2005).”
Poverty, Policy, and Place: How Poverty and Policies to Alleviate Poverty Are Shaped by Local Characteristics (2005, background): “Yankow (2003) found that the benefits of out-migration from rural areas differ by skill level.”
Matching and semi-parametric IV estimation, a distance-based measure of migration, and the wages of young men (2011, background): “Positive contemporaneous returns are found by Bartel (1979) for younger workers, Hunt and Kau (1985) for repeat migrants, and Gabriel and Schmitz (1995) and Yankow (2003) for less-educated workers.”