This study examines the asset gains to households in Kerala, India, from two types of labor migration: moving overseas …

. There are also important market and regulatory failures that constrain mobility and reduce the net benefits of migration … internalize the social costs of migration in receiving regions; and (5) more flexible private sector driven schemes to regulate … the flow of migrants and minimize irregular migration …

The current perspective on the flow of people is almost exclusively focused on permanent migration from poorer to …

This paper provides the first systematic analysis of migration to, within, and from Libya. The data used in the … analysis are from the Displacement Tracking Matrix data set of the International Organization for Migration. The analysis uses … this unique source of data, combining several techniques to analyze various dimensions of migration in Libya. First, the …

Many economists believe that the returns to migration are high. However, credible experimental estimates of the … benefits of migration are rare, particularly for low-skilled international migrants and their families. This paper studies a … losers. Using the lottery outcome as an instrument, the paper finds that the government intermediated migration increased the …

migration externality of expanding telecommunications access in rural areas, especially in places where migration potential is …

Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an …

their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … important implications are sketched. Third, the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches …

This paper re-examines the development implications of international migration focusing on two issues: how the costs … and benefits of migration change over time, and the significance of South-South migration for development. First, the … analysis finds that although greater migration could push down the wages of native workers of advanced countries in the short …