relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …

Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the Italian emigrants (age, sex, skill level), their … area of origins and the directions of their movement. The determinants of the migration choice are then analyzed as well as …

Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not … account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able … individual earnings and use them to estimate a discrete-choice migration equation that allows for correlated errors across …

migration among those from countries with better quality school. In other words, it is the impact of origin country school …

This paper studies in- and out-migration from the U.S. during the first half of the twentieth century and assesses how … these flows affected state-level labor markets. It shows that out-migration positively impacted the wages of remaining … workers, while in-migration had a negative impact. Hence, immigrant arrivals were substitutes of the existing workforce, while …

hardly affect the migration decision. When analysing country choice, countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia appear … migration after graduation. We find that not only wage gains are driving the migration decision, but also differences in labour … market opportunities, past migration experience, and international student exchange are strong predictors of future migration …

The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining … migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved … in migration, some send a subset of members with the rest remaining whilst other households migrate en masse. We address …

Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending … prominent in Africa today, but do or can Africans respond to them with the same elasticity as in the days of ?free? migration …? Our new estimates of net migration and labor market performance for the countries of sub-Saharan Africa suggest that …