We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...

This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of language on the choice of destination among international migrants, the determinants among immigrants of destination language proficiency, and the labor market consequences of that proficiency, as...

Introduction / Barry R. Chiswick -- Migrants to America since 1986 / David M. Reimers -- Immigrant skill transferability and the propensity to invest in human capital / Harriet O. Duleep -- Modeling immigrants language skills / Barry R. Chiswick, Paul W. Miller -- Green cards and the location...