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 … remittances a household receives and the amount of expenditures allocated to education (for all levels of education). We consider …

, 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. …

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 …

-EU migration and productivity, and some weaker evidence of a negative association between EU migration and productivity, although …

This article analyses the distributional impact of remittances across two regions of Algerian emigration (Nedroma and … Idjeur) using an original survey we conducted of 1,200 households in 2011. Remittances and especially the role played by … large as Nedroma. At the same time, they help reduce poverty by nearly 13 percentage points. Remittances have a strong …

migration experience of Switzerland. The analysis centres around two main issues: the economic effects of migration and the … the Swiss migration policy, immigrants tend to have a negative impact on the Swiss economy. Second, the analysis of the …-European countries. On the basis of the empirical analysis, this study finally outlines some reform options for the Swiss migration …

This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The … empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …, 1994; Rubin, 1974). I show that the point-identification of the causal impact of migration requires strong behavioral …

. 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 …

United States. Importantly, we find a significantly negative interaction between pre-migration labor supply and source … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant's own pre-migration labor supply. The …