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 …

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 …

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. …

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 …

the leading principle of the Dutch education system since the beginning of the 20th century. Based on panel data for the … Netherlands we show that there is a relation between competition and student achievement in upper secondary education, but that it …

entrepreneurship to farming. The education effect that separates workers into self-employment and wage employment is stronger for women …

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 …

Education is argued to be an important driver of the decision to start a business. The measurement of its influence …