and to the use of multiple measures of linguistic distance. Interestingly, linguistic proximity matters more for migrants … English speaking destinations. Finally, destinations that are linguistically more diverse and polarized attract fewer migrants …

Eastern-Western European case. We then quantify the effects that increased openness (to migrants) would have on human capital …

China and India from skilled emigration may not be relevant to much smaller countries. This paper presents the results of …; there are large benefits from migration in terms of postgraduate education; most high-skilled migrants from poorer countries … knowledge flow from both current and return migrants about job and study opportunities abroad, but little net knowledge sharing …

account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able …

Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … that earnings differences can account for the higher share of college graduates among migrants to the US, but fail to …

-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration … microdata then allow investigation as to why the more educated remit more. We find the higher income earned by migrants, rather …

little is known about which migrants remit, how much they remit, and how their remitting behavior varies with gender … behavior. Africans are found to remit twice as much on average as migrants from other developing countries, while those from … poorer African countries are more likely to remit than those from richer African countries. We find male migrants remit more …

and to the use of multiple measures of linguistic distance. Interestingly, linguistic proximity matters more for migrants … English speaking destinations. Finally, destinations that are linguistically more diverse and polarized attract fewer migrants …