Throughout the world, migration is an increasingly important and diverse component of population change, both at … national and sub-national levels. Migration impacts on the distribution of knowledge and generates externalities and spillover … effects. This book focuses on recent models and methods for analysing and forecasting migration, as well as on the basic …

that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … sending and receiving countries. In a calibrated multi-country model, we compare the current world to a counterfactual with …

Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …