This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa …

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 …

Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which … capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by gender and education in 1990 and 2000, and calculation of nuanced brain …-gravity model, then identifies key determinants of international migration, and subsequently uses estimated parameters to impute …

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 …

images of extremely negative impacts on developing countries. Recent discussions of brain gain, diaspora effects, and other … advantages of migration have been used to argue against this, but much of the discussion has been absent of evidence. This paper … between skilled and unskilled migration? 5) What makes brain drain more likely? 6) Does brain gain exist? 7) Do high …

Migration is an important yet neglected determinant of institutions. This paper documents the channels through which …

show that there are very high levels of emigration and of return migration among the very highly skilled; the income gains …; there are large benefits from migration in terms of postgraduate education; most high-skilled migrants from poorer countries … send remittances; but that involvement in trade and foreign direct investment is a rare occurrence. There is considerable …

Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an … associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as … workers' remittances has had effects analogous to those of Dutch disease in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which have …

Through substitution and income effects, remittances can alter an individual's allocation of time between market … 2006 and 2014 to estimate the impact of remittances on labor supply in the three countries of the Northern Triangle (El … Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras). The results show that remittances are associated with a reduction in labor force …

International migration offers individuals and their families the potential to experience immediate and large gains in … are also concerns about potential costs of migration, including concerns about trafficking and human rights, a desire for … remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is …