There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied … by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is … descriptively examine the relationship between migration and self-employment, finding that the self-employed are indeed less likely …

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 but uses the help of cartelized smugglers. To overcome this trade-off we study how legalisation and repression can be … combined to eliminate human smuggling while controlling migration flows. This policy mix also has the advantage that the funds …

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

view tends to neglect two important dynamic e ffects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants …' quality, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks …-equivalent migration costs by education level relate to networks. The results imply that the relationship between networks and immigrants …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …

skilled migration to the US, both Asian and European, and test whether foreign inventors' patents are disproportionately cited …

and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …