substantially during the last decades. At the same time, the quality of institutions in developing countries has also improved. The … literature investigates whether international migration can be an important factor for institutional development. Overall, the … findings indicate that emigration to institutionally developed countries induces a positive effect on home-country institutions. …

We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The …

, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …

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. …

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 …