Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

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

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

We investigate the impact of regional migration on average wages and on wage inequality in the West African Economic … migrants in absence of migration to evaluate the effect of regional migration when the effect of migration is purely … compositional (i.e., when wages are treated as exogenous). We find that regional migration increases average wages by 1.8% and …

deviation of 135. We deal with endogeneity concerns by using historical migration networks to instrument for stocks of migrant …

deviation of 135. We deal with endogeneity concerns by using historical migration networks to instrument for stocks of migrant …

elasticity of exports to return migration between 0.08 to 0.24. Our results are stronger in knowledge-intensive industries and …

. We find that the elasticity of exports to return migration is between 0.1 to 0.24 in industries where migrants were …

theoretical arguments regarding the role of migration networks and/or the dynamics of wealth transmission between successive …

Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus … impact of brain drain migration on gross (pre-migration) human capital formation in developing countries. We found a positive … effect of skilled migration prospects on human capital growth in a cross-section of 127 developing countries, with an …