migration a force for both divergence and convergence, and characterizes where each set of forces dominates. Finally, it … explores the consequences for convergence of combining both migration selectivity and agglomeration effects arising from …The basic neoclassical model of migration suggests that migration is induced by real income differentials across …

This study investigates the effects of migration possibilities on the demand for education and human capital formation … under budget constraints. It was found that higher migration possibilities result in an increase in the number of workers … to price increases. When the education supply is insufficient, higher migration possibilities may lower average human …

recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the … countries combining low levels of human capital and low migration rates of skilled workers tend to be positively affected by the … brain drain. By contrast, the brain drain appears to have negative growth effects in countries where the migration rate of …

discrimination in the benchmark case of an economy closed to migration, and then explore how migration prospects affect ethnic … inequality. Under the free migration assumption, we find the intuitive result that migration prospects have a protective effect … there is no migration at equilibrium, unless the distribution of individuals’ skills exhibits marked asymmetries. Last, we …

recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the …

migration a force for both divergence and convergence, and characterizes where each set of forces dominates. Finally, it … explores the consequences for convergence of combining both migration selectivity and agglomeration effects arising from …The basic neoclassical model of migration suggests that migration is induced by real income differentials across …

In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the … of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely, migration exclusively by unskilled workers. Somewhat surprisingly … accumulate more human capital than before the opening up to migration of unskilled workers, the number and share of skilled …

Union. Therefore, migration can be used as a powerful force working toward income convergence between capital-rich and … migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled … France. The subsequent empirical strategy consists in comparing the growth performance of an economy without migration to the …

) to examine the impact of brain drain migration on human capital formation in developing countries. We find evidence of a … positive effect of skilled migration prospects on gross human capital levels in a cross-section of 127 developing countries … winners, brain drain migration may be seen not only as increasing the number of skilled workers worldwide but also the number …