large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. -- Remittances ; migration ; brain …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …

may lead to higher skilled emigration. A regression model that accounts for the time-varying definition of migration and …We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration (Bang and … emigration. …

that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … - often called brain drain - has been at the center of a heated debate about the welfare consequences of emigration from …

accounting framework to quantify the effects of migration on development and inequality. We find that selective emigration … migration costs, and the education policy. Emigration significantly reduces cross-country income inequality and the proportion …International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development …

We examine the effects of emigration and remittances on the corruption experience of migrant household members staying … in the countries of origin. We hypothesize that the effects of emigration on corruption can be both positive (via migrant … value transfer) and negative (via misuse of monetary remittances). Using Gallup Balkan Monitor survey data in instrumental …

This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and …, 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. …

Moldova, one of the countries with the highest emigration rates in the world, and an instrumental variable approach we find … remittances from migrants can provide additional funds for the education of the left behind. At the same time the absence of … data and matched administrative school-level public expenditures from the World Bank's Open Budget Initiative (BOOST) from …

remittance-dependent economies in the world. The analysis of a unique three-wave household panel survey reveals that emigration …We study the relationship between migration and children's education in Tajikistan – one of the poorest and most … of family members is negatively associated with children's school attendance. Receiving remittances does not offset this …

Highly-skilled migrants are becoming a more important part of the world economy and of policy debates in a diverse set … of countries. The proliferation of skills around the world, increases in world trade, the growth of R&D, and the general … increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of skills, have all contributed to the emergence of high-skilled migration …