This paper assesses the potential for skilled labor migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. It utilizes … beneficial migration between Africa and Europe. …, workers in Ghana and Kenya are substantially less skilled than workers in Europe. The paper further considers a number of …

High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … bias in migration significantly increases welfare in most receiving countries. Moreover, due to a more efficient global … that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …

International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development … and human capital accumulation in a multi-country context. We then embed this migration-education nexus into a development … accounting framework to quantify the effects of migration on development and inequality. We find that selective emigration …

in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …

This study investigates the well-researched relationship between migration and the formation of human capital in the … migration outflows, thus indicating that the facilitation of local employment through economic integration outweighs the … central research question, we see a positive effect of out-migration on educational attainment in the source region …

Emigrants from Italy and Ireland contributed disproportionately to the Age of Mass Migration. That their departure … selectivity of migrant flows - both from sending and receiving country perspectives - has given rise to claims that migration … level of human capital in sending countries. On the other hand, the prospect of emigration and return migration may both …

Migration is historically a social phenomenon that not only has a significant effect on politics, economics, and social … aspects but also presents challenges to the security of states and alters population composition in countries. Labor migration … is one of the most dynamic in Europe. The current study aims at examining the relations and the reasons for emigration to …

Global migration is heavily skill-biased, with tertiary-educated workers being four times more likely to migrate than … workers with a lower education. In this paper, we quantify the global impact of this skill bias in migration. Based on a … the skill bias in migration, while a small number of sending countries is significantly worse off. The negative effect in …