Migration outflows, especially of young people, may deprive an economy of entrepreneurial energy and innovative ideas …

, remittances, return migration, or an emigration 'lottery'. Instead, they are driven purely by the public nature of knowledge goods …

We ask what level of migration would maximize world welfare. We find that skill-neutral policies are never optimal. An … countries. For intermediate welfare functions that moderately favor the rich however, it is optimal to have no migration at all …

Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration … that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and … for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We …

This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing … together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the … legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross …