We consider the case in which the opening up of an economy to migration results in departure of skilled workers. We … point out that while the possibility of migration changes the set of employment opportunities, it also affects the structure … several interesting results. First, while migration is pursued by the relatively high-skilled, subsequent return migrants are …

A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid "social humiliation." In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …

marginal utilities of income over the range of income a person possesses. We model migration from one reference group to … deprivation decreases while satisfaction rises with migration and that a weak incentive exists if the individual increases or … perplexing migratory phenomena, identify income inequality as a distinct explanatory variable of migration and establish an …

For nearly four decades now, the conventional wisdom has been that the migration of human capital (skilled workers … not hold. A well designed migration policy can result in a “brain gain” to the developing country rather than in just a …

We study human capital depletion and formation in an economy open to out-migration, as opposed to an economy which is … structure of incentives can give rise to a brain gain in conjunction with a brain drain. Migration by high-skill members of its …

capital than if they had migrated without factoring in the possibility of migration (a form of brain drain), other workers … stay at home with more human capital than they would have formed in the absence of the possibility of migration (a form of …

We document and suggest a rationale for the durability of seasonal migration from Poland to Germany, a phenomenon … persisting for more than a century. We refer to the role of the tradition of engaging in seasonal migration as a force that …

A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: established migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …

This paper studies the growth dynamics of a developing country under migration. Assuming that human capital formation … is subject to a strong enough, positive intertemporal externality, the prospect of migration will increase growth in the … human capital in the home country. In either case, the home country experiences a welfare gain, provided that migration is …