This paper explores the existence of network effects in migrants' remittance behavior. In this study, networks are …

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrant networks and linguistic distance in the location choice of migrants …

Diaspora networks provide information to future migrants and influence both their decision to migrate and their success … future migrants.In a decision model with imperfect signalling we show that migrants with access to a better network are more … empirically using data on recent Mexican migrants to the US, and exploit the geographic diffusion of Mexicans since the 1980s as …

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

Netherlands, which implies that all migrants are (self)-employed at the time of arrival. We find that many migrants leave the … the dynamics. Microsimulations of synthetic cohorts reveal that many migrants experience unemployment spells, but ten … only increase the unemployment among migrants but also departure from the country. Scenarios also indicate that an increase …

Destination countries can adopt selective immigration policies to improve migrants' quality. Screening potential … migrants on the basis of observable characteristics also influences their self-selection on unobservables. We propose a model … that analyzes the effects of selective immigration policies on migrants' quality, measured by their wages at destination …

We show that the Roy model has more precise predictions about the self‐selection of migrants than previously realized … imply a stochastic dominance relationship between the earnings distributions of migrants and non-migrants. We use the Danish … emigrants in terms of pre-emigration earnings: the income distribution for the migrants almost stochastically dominates the …