population. This paper contributes to the discussion with illuminating the main drivers of urbanization: (i) migration and (ii …

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … model is that we take into account the impact of migration on the local (rural) labor market. Migration is shown to decrease …

International migration is costly and initially only the middle class of the wealth distribution may have both the … means and incentives to migrate, increasing inequality in the sending community. However, the migration networks formed … that wealth has a nonlinear effect on migration, and then examines the empirical evidence for an inverse U …