Received research shows numerous motives for migration, but fewer reasons for return migration. This paper aims to … correct this imbalance. Twelve reasons for return migration are presented and discussed briefly. The reasons listed are … derived from research on migration conducted by the author in the course of the past three and a half decades. The purpose of …

The long run effect of migration solely by unskilled workers is that skilled workers in the home country acquire …

This paper identifies the migration policies that emerge when both the sending country and the receiving country wield … power to set migration quotas, when controlling migration is costly, and when the decision of how much human capital to … acquire depends, among other things, on the migration policies. The paper analyzes the endogenous formation of bilateral …

This paper studies the growth dynamics of a developing country under migration. Assuming that human capital formation … is subject to a strong enough, positive intertemporal externality, the prospect of migration will increase growth in the … human capital in the home country. In either case, the home country experiences a welfare gain, provided that migration is …

We document and suggest a rationale for the durability of seasonal migration from Poland to Germany, a phenomenon … persisting for more than a century. We refer to the role of the tradition of engaging in seasonal migration as a force that …

A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: “established” migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …