, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …

For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host … country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global … economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research posits that migration restrictions could be not only desirably …

immigration from poor countries by addressing the "root causes" of migration. We review existing evidence on the effectiveness of … that aid's capacity to deter migration is small at best. Aid can only encourage economic growth, employment, and security … deter migration but to shape it for mutual benefit. …