provides insights about the brain drain, migration, and the role for multinationals in development. More generally, this paper …

for the critique by Rodriguez and Rodrik (2001). We also show that the main effect of migration operates through total … provide further evidence in support of this mechanism by showing that the degree of diversity (by origin country) in migration …

This paper distinguishes between target-earnings and life-cycle motivations for return migration by examining how … earnings, favorable exchange rate shocks have the least effect on return migration, but lead to increases in household …

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 …

-specific premium for migration and return for three typical destinations of Romanian migrants after 1990. We find evidence for a … sorting of migrants consistent with skill compensation in destination countries. The premium to return migration increases … with migrants' skills and drives the positive selection of returnees. Based on the rationality of these migration decisions …

experiment in the Philippines testing the impact of unilaterally facilitating international labor migration. Our most intensive … treatment doubled the rate of job offers but had no identifiable effect on international labor migration. Even the highest … conclude that unilateral migration facilitation will at most induce a trickle, not a flood, of additional emigration. …