Conditional Cash Transfers are increasingly used by development aid agencies to reduce the incentives for migration … from low-income countries. The evidence to date suggests that such transfers typically increase the rate of migration when … human capital and by lowering capital constraints-increasing both migration aspirations and the means to achieve them. But …

This paper looks at the e ffect of cultural barriers on the skill selection of international migration. The data covers … bilateral migration stocks by skill level in 2000 from about 99 sending countries to the main 15 destination countries. We use …

This paper provides a micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration analyzing how financial constraints … determine migration trends. We build a RUM model in which we explicitly introduce the budget constraint in the migration … decision: individuals cannot afford migrating to a destination for which the migration cost (which depends on the immigration …

This paper examines UK migration policy and recent migration flows from Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries to the UK … for increased migration from the EaP countries to help fill skill gaps, it seems very unlikely that the UK will allow …

This paper provides a micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration analyzing how financial constraints … determine migration trends. We build a RUM model in which we explicitly introduce the budget constraint in the migration … decision: individuals cannot afford migrating to a destination for which the migration cost (which depends on the immigration …