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 …

recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the … countries combining low levels of human capital and low migration rates of skilled workers tend to be positively affected by the … brain drain. By contrast, the brain drain appears to have negative growth effects in countries where the migration rate of …

of migration flows from the New Member States to Germany. We demonstrate that immigration increased substantially despite … that Germany would have been better off, had it immediately opened its labor market. Finally, the Great recession allows us … to study how effective migration within the EU is as an adjustment mechanism. Our data clearly show an increase in …

secondary schooling in Germany which are not migrant-specific. …

Germany and the UK whether the self-employed are less likely to move or migrate than employees. Using longitudinal data from … in employment status we found little evidence that the self-employed in Germany and the UK are more rooted in place than … exit from self-employment are associated with internal migration. …

can be most efficiently used. It has long been hypothesized that individuals' migration propensities depend on their … available data from the German Socio-Economic Panel to measure directly the relationship between migration propensities and … markets in Germany. This result is robust to stratifying by age, sex, education, national origin, and a variety of other …