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 …

and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …

migration, I develop a model of migration, which combines the two migration decisions into a unique model - decisions about … solution. But, when we incorporate "brain waste" and "return migration", then it is optimal to migrate when young. …

, and accelerating institutional change. All these characteristics of migration make it an essential policy issue for the … detailed information on global labor movements and heterogeneity, and reports new projections on global migration patterns … between labor and other factors of production. For example reducing migration raises the premium on migrant labor in the …

This paper looks at the relationship between migration between developing countries – or countries of the global ‘South …’ – and processes of human development. The paper offers a critical analysis of the concept of South-South migration and draws … attention to four fundamental problems. The paper then gives a broad overview of the changing patterns of migration in …

migration over human development in Bolivia. Three issues frame these effects. First, twenty five years of rural to urban … migration have transformed the demographic profile of Bolivian society. The new middle third is younger, more bilingual and … quality and informal insurance mechanisms that make migration more costly. Third, increases in human development can be …

to per natural measures. The peoples of the least developed countries stand to gain the most from international migration …, but there are potentially significant gains to migration between developing countries as well. …

The aim of this paper is to measure the returns to migration using non-experimental data taking both observed and … unobserved characteristics into account. A significant challenge related to migration research and the issues of unobserved … continuous treatment and outcomes, both of which are not appropriate for models of migration and many outcomes of interest …

care services, lifestyles, and coverage of health expenditures. We base the analysis on international evidence that … directly associated with their migration experience. …

This study exploits a new longitudinal dataset to examine selective migration among 1,500 Kenyan youth originally … living in rural areas. We examine whether migration rates are related to individual “ability”, broadly defined to include … attainment as a proxy for cognitive ability, we employ an arguably preferable measure, a pre-migration primary school academic …