We document and suggest a rationale for the durability of seasonal migration from Poland to Germany, a phenomenon … persisting for more than a century. We refer to the role of the tradition of engaging in seasonal migration as a force that …

A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: established migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …

This paper studies the growth dynamics of a developing country under migration. Assuming that human capital formation … is subject to a strong enough, positive intertemporal externality, the prospect of migration will increase growth in the … human capital in the home country. In either case, the home country experiences a welfare gain, provided that migration is …

In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the … of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely, migration exclusively by unskilled workers. Somewhat surprisingly … accumulate more human capital than before the opening up to migration of unskilled workers, the number and share of skilled …

. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of migration by engineers increases human capital accumulation of both types of … of the said prospect of migration, including the engineers who lose the migration lottery, and even the individuals who …

, under certain conditions, elect to restrict the extent of the migration of educated individuals. …