Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent. Migration and … educational attainment of their children. But migration and education are not only related for those who migrate or their …-migrants in the destination country. This chapter will discuss some of the key areas that connect migration and education. …

Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the human agent. Migration and … may also affect the educational attainment of their children. But migration and education are not only related for those … migration and education. …

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – international migration and education – on … shows that education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in …, increases female participation. Both women acquiring greater access to education and men increasing their migration abroad …

In deliberating whether to pursue an undergraduate education in the US, a foreign student takes into consideration the …

. But the very nature of this choice makes identifying the impacts of migration difficult, since it is hard to measure a … credible counterfactual of what the person and their household would have been doing had migration not occurred. Migration … impacts of migration. We provide an overview and critical review of the three strands of this approach: policy experiments …

Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European … additional reason for proposing temporary migration policies based on the characteristics of the foreign labor-effort supply. The … when temporary migration policies are adopted. …

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …

to where wages are higher. But the effect of this migration on health is less clear and existing evidence is ambiguous … unsuccessful applicants to a migration lottery to experimentally estimate the impact of migration on measured blood pressure and … to migration. We use various econometric estimators to form bounds on the treatment effects since there appears to be …

Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe … Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … countries, and attempt to reconcile the features of migration flows with our predictions for earnings by destination. We find …