This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …

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 …

welfare effect of future income uncertainty. We build a model of remittances and savings under income uncertainty and show … that an immigrant will increase his remittances in response to a first-order risk decrease in future income. Using changes … prediction of our model using panel data of bilateral remittances. Our theoretical prediction is supported by the data: there is …

Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) economies have had the highest degree of dependency on received remittances … developing countries. We examine the role of remittances in the trade balance of 11 labor-abundant MENA countries. Our panel … regression analysis shows that the inflow of remittances has had an increasing effect on trade deficits by triggering import …

country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in … long as the permanent migration probability is not too large, this positive effect causes both aggregate and per …

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 … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …

This paper looks at the impact of networks on international migration flows to OECD countries. In particular, we look …, unlike the preceding literature on macro determinants of international migration, we can identify the respective factors … gender. Women are also found to be less directly dependent on migration costs unrelated to networks such as distance. …

Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we …-capital structure of current migration flows. Our analysis exploits a bilateral data set on international migration by educational … various determinants of migration, we find diasporas increase migration flows, lower their average educational level and lead …