The Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 updates the 2008 edition of the Factbook with additional data for 71 … national sources. The Factbook attempts to present numbers and facts behind the stories of international migration and … migration flows, relative to population, are weaker than those of the last decades of the nineteenth century. The top migrant …

"This paper examines how households trade off migration and savings when subject to exogenous violence. The authors … propose that households under violence decide jointly on migration and saving, because a higher asset-stock is more difficult … to carry to a new place. When confronted with exogenous violence, households are expected to consider migration, and …

"This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries … norms using original and detailed data on migration. The results provide evidence of a significant transfer of fertility …

"The authors examine the impact of migration on educational attainment in rural Mexico. Using historical migration … rates by state to instrument for current migration, they find evidence of a significant negative effect of migration on … completing high school. The negative effect of migration on schooling is somewhat mitigated for younger girls with low educated …

"Increased attention to the development potential of international migration has led to calls for greater global … governance, especially in terms of the quality of the bureaucracy, and with lower levels of migration. Countries that place legal … restrictions on the rights of women to emigrate are also found to have lower migration rates than countries with similar income and …