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

.S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …

may drive international migration from developing to developed countries. Furthermore, we look on the relationship between … trade, development and migration. Empirical studies focusing on international migration from LDCs so far are very scarce …. The paper utilizes a new dataset that is based on migration from 86 African and Asian countries to Germany. Information is …

This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of … function of their migration histories. Return migrants, current migrants, and (yet) non-migrants are distinguished. Transitions …, demographics and migration status. Migration patterns are found to differ systematically between Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia, as well …

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 …

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

to be equal to one. -- Migration ; Remittances ; Alturism ; Cointegration …

over time with the length of the migration spell, suggesting that remittances sent for portfolio motives become more likely …