International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development … and human capital accumulation in a multi-country context. We then embed this migration-education nexus into a development … accounting framework to quantify the effects of migration on development and inequality. We find that selective emigration …

, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …

origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …

This paper studies the impact of the First Great Migration on children. We use the complete count 1940 Census to …

. Moreover, migrants might be favourably (self-)selected if the migration costs tend to decline with the skill level of migrants … inequality in the host and the home country, is associated with a favourable selection bias. -- international migration ; self …

Based on a welfare-maximization model of skilled migration where education generates a positive externality, this paper …

This paper investigates the relationship between international migration, remittances and human capital investment in … Kenya. We use household level data from the 2009 Kenya Migration Household Survey (produced by the Africa Migration Project …