Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of … using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if they are able to match with migrating grooms. Guided by a … theoretical model in which women make marriage and migration decisions jointly, we hypothesize that marriage and labour markets …

In this paper, we make an attempt to understand whether low labour market returns to education in India are responsible … market participation through gender lens. Results show that women’s education has a U-shaped relationship with paid work … participation. The probability to participate in the paid labour market shows an increasing trend with education levels higher than …

education, we find a large and positive effect of tertiary education on employment. It confirms the important role of education …

We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home … order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may … choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo …

takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries …-skilled jobs. This suggests possible time-inconsistencies between short-run economic gains from migration and negative long …-term effects from missing human-capital investment. We analyze data from Tajikistan, where approximately one-third of the labor …

university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-linear long-run and short-run relationship between home country university education and Turkish migration to Germany over 1970 …Distinguishing between short-run and long-run outcomes we provide new insight into the relationship between education …