High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … bias in migration significantly increases welfare in most receiving countries. Moreover, due to a more efficient global … that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …

Immigration authorities have seldom collected data on the out-migration of the foreign-born. As a consequence, several … indirect approaches have been proposed to measure and study out-migration. This paper adds to the literature by using official … statistics that directly identify the out-migration by demographic and socio-economic characteristics. Using time series and …

This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how … these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the wages of remaining … workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence, immigrant arrivals were substitutes of the existing workforce, while …

This paper explores the distribution of immigrant wages in the absence of return migration from the host country. In … out-migration of Mexican-born workers occurred. Because migrants self-select in the decision to return, the overarching … migrants who return home have failed in the host country. -- return migration ; self-selection ; assimilation ; U …