empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as …-household selection into migration may suffer from substantial bias. …This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The …

Many destination countries consider implementing points-based migration systems as a way to improve migrants' quality …

rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper tests the effects of guest work on Indian applicants to a … information, debt, and later migration were incompatible with systematic fraud. …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, this paper focuses on pre-migration employment dynamics … market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable … positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The size of the gains varies …

Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …

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 …

states' citizens unleashed significant east-west migration flows in a labor market with more than half a billion people … states unevenly. This chapter studies whether and how east-west migration flows in an enlarged EU responded to institutional … and economic factors. We first develop a simple framework of adjustment through migration of workers between labor markets …