This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on inter-national migration by educational attainment. The …. The data set can be used to capture the recent trend in women's skilled migration and to analyze its causes and … and exhibit relatively higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated …

migration by country of origin and education level. An exception is the paper by Carrington and Detragiache (1998), which … provided skilled migration rates for 61 developing countries in 1990. This study relies on a set of tentative assumptions. For … delivers information that is rich enough to assess the changes in the international distribution of migration rates, to test …

accumulation and greater skilled migration - such as high ratio of remittances over domestic incomes, high dependency ratios in …With growing international skilled labor mobility, education and migration decisions have become increasingly inter …, savings, or the cost of education. The authors develop a generic dynamic general equilibrium model to analyze the education-migration …

Assuming a given educational policy, the recent brain drain literature reveals that skilled migration can boost the … relationship between educational subsidies and migration prospects, obtaining a negative relationship for 105 countries. Based on … this result, the analysis revisits the country specific effects of skilled migration upon human capital. The findings show …

The authors focus on the consequences of skilled migration for developing countries. They first present new evidence on … the magnitude of migration of skilled workers at the international level and then discuss its direct and indirect effects …, with emphasis on migration and education policy in a context of globalized labor markets …

The international migration of high-skilled workers may trigger productivity effects at the macro level such that the … international bilateral migration flows and provide evidence consistent with this theoretical hypothesis. They propose various … instrumentation strategies to identify the causal effect of skilled migration on log differences of GDP per capita, total factor …

Existing empirical evidence indicates that remittances have a positive impact on a good number of development … remittances on the real exchange rate. The findings suggest that remittances indeed appear to lead to a significant real exchange …

Macro- and micro-economic evidence suggests a positive role of remittances in preparing households against natural … disasters and in coping with the loss afterwards. Analysis of cross-country macroeconomic data shows that remittances increase … after the 1998 flood. Ethiopian households that receive international remittances seem to rely more on cash reserves and …

framework how the receipt of internal remittances (from within Ghana) and international remittances (from African or other … food, education and housing. Contrary to other studies, which find that remittances are spent disproportionately on … receiving remittances in Ghana do not spend more at the margin on food, education and housing than households with similar …