migration. It covers the theoretical channels at stake in the global effect of the networks. It identifies the key issues …, namely the impact on size, selection and concentration of the migration flows. The paper also reviews the empirical hurdles …

comprehensive picture of bilateral global migration over the second half of the 20th century emerges. The data reveal that the … global migrant stock increased from 92 million in 1960 to 165 million in 2000. Quantitatively, migration between developing … countries dominates, constituting half of all international migration in 2000. When the partition of India and the dissolution …

Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which … capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by gender and education in 1990 and 2000, and calculation of nuanced brain …-gravity model, then identifies key determinants of international migration, and subsequently uses estimated parameters to impute …

The international migration of high-skilled workers may trigger productivity effects at the macro level such that the … international bilateral migration flows and provide evidence consistent with this theoretical hypothesis. They propose various … instrumentation strategies to identify the causal effect of skilled migration on log differences of GDP per capita, total factor …

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

should be directed towards emigration. Using a new dataset on migration flows by education levels for the period 1990 … results go counter to the popular beliefs about migration, but they are due to the higher skill intensity of both emigration …