advantages of migration have been used to argue against this, but much of the discussion has been absent of evidence. This paper … between skilled and unskilled migration? 5) What makes brain drain more likely? 6) Does brain gain exist? 7) Do high …

The choice between temporary and permanent migration is today central to the design of migration policies. The authors … draw a distinction between the two types of migration on the basis of the associated social cost and the dynamics of … learning by migrants. They find that unilateral migration policies are globally inefficient because they lead to too much …

While the level of international migration and remittances continues to grow, data on international migration remains … overcome these problems by constructing a new data set of 24 large, labor-exporting countries and using estimates of migration … migration, international migration involves the movement of the educated. The vast majority of migrants to both the United …

migration by country of origin and education level. An exception is the paper by Carrington and Detragiache (1998), which … provided skilled migration rates for 61 developing countries in 1990. This study relies on a set of tentative assumptions. For … delivers information that is rich enough to assess the changes in the international distribution of migration rates, to test …

The authors focus on the consequences of skilled migration for developing countries. They first present new evidence on … the magnitude of migration of skilled workers at the international level and then discuss its direct and indirect effects …, with emphasis on migration and education policy in a context of globalized labor markets. …