Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume …, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances …, migration and development research has broadened to consider a range of international development processes. These include human …

before they migrate—linking skill creation and skill mobility. Such designs can learn from the experience of the Australian … creation, but has not attained its goal of skill mobility. This paper establishes and explains this finding, and draws lessons … for future initiatives that may seek to link skill creation with higher levels of skill mobility. …

-skill migration. Those policies have been justified as Pigovian regulations to raise efficiency by internalizing externalities, and as …

recent data suggest something quite different: that over the course of a “mobility transition”, emigration generally rises …. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of … research, which has yielded six classes of theory to explain the mobility transition and numerous tests of its existence and …

remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the origin. Net of that cost, there is … little reason to expect large growth effects of remittances in the origin economy. Migration and remittances clearly have …

conservative, if rough, estimate is that three quarters of this difference represents the effect of international migration on …

they wish. Much existing evidence and some new evidence suggests that regulating skilled-worker mobility itself does little …

—countries that, if there were population mobility, would only have a very small fraction of their current population? This paper … due to mobility across regions of the same country is often twice large as the variance across all developing countries in … they would have had without out-migration. Third, I compare the historical evolution of labor force and real wages of …

Does the emigration of highly-skilled workers deplete local human capital? The answer is not obvious if migration …