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 …

This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of … internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who … differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of migration. We use data on male migrants from three rounds of Turkish …

the long-term impact of temporary labor migration. We use a propensity score matching (PSM) framework to compare … outcomes. Our results show that households that send women abroad are relatively poor and utilize migration to catch up with …

native-refugee gap in men's employment in Turkey (in favor of natives) is much smaller than that reported for most developed … countries. Moreover, men's employment peaks quite early (one year) after arrival and remains there, whereas women's employment … native-refugee gap in men's (women's) paid employment reduces to 4.7 (4.0) percentage points (pp). These small gaps conceal …

specifications. The findings indicate that increased Palestinian employment in Israel leads to changes in real GDP in the range of -1 … activities outside the SNA boundary, the full-employment assumption may be the second-best alternative, although it risks …

job applicants by employment status affects both the level and the persistence of unemployment and numerically that these …