For example, potential migrants are expected, as actual migrants, to prefer a location where their expected objective and subjective returns to migration would be higher.
And it still allows bigger cities, which migrants prefer, to continue using hukou barriers as a way of trying to limit population growth.
"Qualified and highly qualified migrants prefer the U.S.A., Canada and Australia".
Most migrants prefer to maintain their official status as farmers, because this gives them usage rights to small parcels of farmland: a more tangible benefit than the welfare promises which many rightly suspect will not be fulfilled.
The Great Rift itself runs down the Jordan Valley 20 miles to the east, but many of the migrants prefer to travel along the cooler ridge of the Judaean hills, with Jerusalem, 2,500ft up, right on its edge.
Rather than walk the three miles back every morning, the migrants prefer to stay within sight of their goal, even if it means living in conditions that make the "new Jungle" look like luxury accommodation.
In addition, rural-urban migrants prefer moving out for longer periods.
For this reason, migrants prefer international money transfer companies such as Western Union and Money Gram despite their higher prices.
The study shows that high-skilled migrants prefer countries with low benefits and taxes, while the low-skilled cluster in countries with a high benefit level.
Ideally, Mexican migrants prefer to spend as little time as possible away from home and yet earn as much as possible during their stay in the USA.
