Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

migration pressure, and in disappointment amongst those who do migrate. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how … migration destination. Our procedure enables us to obtain moments and quantiles of the subjective distribution of expected …

We estimate whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market by comparing pre- and post …-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour … measured population changes in Europe were due to migration for employment purposes - i.e. an upper-bound estimate - up to …

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …