This report reviews the World Bank's latest international migration statistics for every country in the world for each … five year period from 1980 - 2000. The estimates and projections of net international migration during this period will be … international migration to all receiving countries totaled more than 1.2 million persons a year. The author assumes this figure to …

of regional populations. Migration in Brazil has historically been a mechanism for adjustment to disequilibria. Poorer …. Migration should have benefited both regions. The southeast benefits by importing skilled and unskilled labor that makes local … educated than the northeast average. The authors find that the predicted returns to migration are increasing with education for …

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 …