migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of … international migration and the factors influencing migration; the background to, and the development of, restrictions on … of migration on the economy at large are briefly discussed. …

Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …

increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of skills, have all contributed to the emergence of high-skilled migration … as a major issue. High-skilled migration is often discussed in narrow terms of "brain drain/brain gain", when both the … pattern of migration and its effects appear to be much more complex. However, our understanding of the effects of high skilled …

educational upgrading of emigrants after migration. We do so by combining our survey data on current, return and non-migrants with … of those left behind. Alternative channels (namely remittances, family disruption, and general equilibrium effects at the … substantial human capital gains from allowing free migration and encouraging return migration. -- Brain drain ; brain gain ; brain …

"Operation Solomon". What were the factors that drove this unprecedented migration of Jews from around the globe to Israel? Many … of the major international migration movements were largely economic in nature (the push of poverty or the pull of … migration, which reflects failure to absorb, is discussed, and the very different absorption policies of the 1950s and the 1990s …

The purpose of this paper is to review what has been learnt about Irish migration from the work of social scientists …

able to explain the downward trend in east to west migration using wage and unemployment information. Convergence in hourly …

constraints), they have not been examined in a systematic way. In this paper, we develop a novel migration accounting methodology … and use it to quantify the main drivers of the mobility transition curve. Our analysis distinguishes between migration …-middle-income countries. Finally, our methodology sheds light on the microfoundations of migration decisions. …

Using uncertainty about the future returns to migration, the option value theory of migration can explain low migration … in the 1990s, we use information on the stage of the application process, migration intentions and ethnicity to construct … close proxies for the option value of postponing migration and for migration costs. The link between the two is shown to be …