international migration research, both from a methodological as well as an empirical perspective. The purpose of this paper is … twofold. First, it aims to provide an overview of that part of the migration literature that is concerned with the …

model is improved by decomposing population growth into net interregional migration and exogenous natural popu1ation … migration is dominated by housing market developments and in the short run on1y slightly affected by increases in regional …

What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration …, receipt of remittances may contribute to new flows of migration, in particular in the case of Morocco. …

potential growth phase may well disappear if supporting conditions for growth are absent. Large-scale migration is not expected … allocated generally to consumption rather than to investment purposes. Migration of a temporary nature in conjunction with …

out of Africa, especially in Ghana and Senegal. Signs of positive selection with respect to the level of education of … migration behaviour. Both ties within the household with household members who have international migration experience and ties …

irrelevance of education for socio-economic position of immigrants once the country of origin has been controlled for. …

Estimates of the effect of education on GDP (the social return) have been hard to reconcile with micro evidence on the … of education reduces the private return by 2 percentage points, consistent with Katz-Murphy's (1992) elasticity of …

While there is no doubt that health is strongly correlated with education, whether schooling exerts a causal impact on … to linked data from health surveys, tax files and the mortality register to estimate the causal effect of education on …

This paper estimates the health returns to education, using data on identical twins. I adopt a twin … both education and health. I further investigate to what extent within-twin-pair differences in schooling correlates with … education on health. Higher educational levels are found to be positively related to self-reported health but negatively related …