; there are large benefits from migration in terms of postgraduate education; most high-skilled migrants from poorer countries … knowledge flow from both current and return migrants about job and study opportunities abroad, but little net knowledge sharing … from current migrants to home country governments or businesses. Finally, the fiscal costs vary considerably across …

; there are large benefits from migration in terms of postgraduate education; most high-skilled migrants from poorer countries … knowledge flow from both current and return migrants about job and study opportunities abroad, but little net knowledge sharing … from current migrants to home country governments or businesses. Finally, the fiscal costs vary considerably across …

by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is … descriptively examine the relationship between migration and self-employment, finding that the self-employed are indeed less likely … to migrate than either wage workers or the unemployed. We then analyze seven randomized experiments that increased self-employment …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … population, making it hard to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to … by comparing the incomes of migrants to those who applied to migrate, but whose names were not drawn in the lottery …

-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration … microdata then allow investigation as to why the more educated remit more. We find the higher income earned by migrants, rather …

-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration … microdata then allow investigation as to why the more educated remit more. We find the higher income earned by migrants, rather …

Measuring the gain in income from migration is complicated by non-random selection of migrants from the general … population, making it difficult to obtain an appropriate comparison group of non-migrants. This paper uses a migrant lottery to … incomes of migrants to those who applied to migrate, but whose names were not drawn in the lottery, after allowing for the …

some studies suggesting that migrants are miserable in their new locations. Observational studies are potentially biased by … the self-selection of migrants so a natural experiment is used to compare successful and unsuccessful applicants to a …