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

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 …

to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the … microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices. Although we estimate that the income gains from migration are very … large, not everyone migrates and many return. Within this group of highly skilled individuals the emigration decision is …