view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants’ education level, and source countries’ income … migration. Moreover, as predicted by our model, remittances increase with source countries’ level and rate of migration …

migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …

This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. We … higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated with the gender gap in …

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 …

origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …

show that there are very high levels of emigration and of return migration among the very highly skilled; the income gains …; there are large benefits from migration in terms of postgraduate education; most high-skilled migrants from poorer countries …

Two trends in international migration flows have attracted much attention recently: (i) the growing feminisation of … migration flows; and (ii) the increasing selectivity of migration towards the highly skilled, which in turn has given rise to … shows that female migration to OECD countries has been increasing significantly in recent decades, so that migrant stocks …