difference, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows -- such as Jamaica or El Salvador -- are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances … about 10% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability …

This paper studies asymmetry of information and transfers within a unique data set of 712 extended family networks from …

home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … likely to reunite with their close family in the host country. Both factors should be associated with a relatively smaller … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an …