Are Internal Migrants in Albania Leaving for the Better?
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While Albania is more known for its massive international migration flows, internal migration is also noteworthy and, more important, understudied. This paper tries to fill a gap in the migration literature by assessing the impact of internal migration on household wellbeing. Albania is an ideal case to study the phenomenon, since no migration, whether internal or international, was allowed before 1990 and, therefore, it constitutes a quasi-experimental setting. The study relies on a unique data set, the 2005 Albania Living Standards Measurement Study (ALSMS) with a focus on the migrant households oversampled in peri-urban Tirana, which will be compared to rural households not migrated internally. We take advantage of detailed information on the residence duration of internal migrants, housing and wealth variables for 1990, as well as the current local economic and social conditions they are exposed to. The aim is to assess whether wellbeing in terms of income, consumption, health, educ ation, and housing has changed owing to internal migration.