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 …

distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a lowskilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign …This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth … country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled employment in the home country. Thus it prevents a fraction of …

, we observe interesting patterns in the skill composition, employment opportunities and wages for migrants to the … different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …

education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However …, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case of Mexico-U.S. migration, we show that this inconsistency between … of occupational skills rather than by educational attainment. Thus, focusing on a single skill dimension when …

country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in … the first place. However, it induces the host country to improve its education quality, as a larger share of the generated … benefits accrue in this host country. A higher education quality raises in turn the human capital of the returning students. As …

, and is associated with higher average productivity and firm profits, but also with higher wage dispersion. We also show …

the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular, integration depresses the incentives for some talented but …In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human … capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and …

education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and …

influencing the selection in terms skills and in term of gender. We found that network effects vary by education level but not by …This paper looks at the impact of networks on international migration flows to OECD countries. In particular, we look … at whether diaspora effects are different across education levels and gender. Using new data allowing to include both …