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 …

capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants’ education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … model is that we take into account the impact of migration on the local (rural) labor market. Migration is shown to decrease …

endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …

The basic neoclassical model of migration suggests that migration is induced by real income differentials across … clear, despite increased migration from poorer to richer areas. At a theoretical level, one route to addressing this … alternative route, based on a theoretical and empirical proposition of the migration literature, namely, that migration is a …

find that immigration restrictions set by receiving countries have the paradoxical effect of creating migration flows which …We consider a small open developing economy, whose population is bifurcated into a majority and a minority group, the … discrimination in the benchmark case of an economy closed to migration, and then explore how migration prospects affect ethnic …

recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the … population of developing countries. …

context of migration. Specifically, we show that if migration is a possibility, such variability in the rate of return to … in a developing economy even after expected migration is netted out. Finally, our findings are shown to have explanatory …

International migration is costly and initially only the middle class of the wealth distribution may have both the … means and incentives to migrate, increasing inequality in the sending community. However, the migration networks formed … that wealth has a nonlinear effect on migration, and then examines the empirical evidence for an inverse U …