This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …

source and five destination countries we find selective migration determined by relative anthropometric inequality in source …

country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in … long as the permanent migration probability is not too large, this positive effect causes both aggregate and per …

This paper looks at the impact of networks on international migration flows to OECD countries. In particular, we look …, unlike the preceding literature on macro determinants of international migration, we can identify the respective factors … gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …

This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …

distance-related migration costs cannot explain the lower distance sensitivity of educated and risk-loving individuals. …

international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is … twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part of the migration literature that is concerned with the …