in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … education of her children back home. We find that this aspirations effect increases the average skill level in the society for a … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population …

analyses the impact of the EQF on education, skills, migration and the economic growth by performing a conceptual analysis and … European Commission. Whereas education is the main driver of the upward skill mobility, migration drives the spatial skill …

emigrants. Individuals self-select into migration and locations based on education. Migration to urban centres increases with … migration costs, as well as by higher investment in education (for rural migrants). Migration prospects to urban centres drive … education choices of rural individuals. Hence, migration policies can be used to stimulate educational attainment in rural …

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

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. …

This chapter connects population aging with international migration. After documenting the trends for both, we review … the supply-push and demand-pull determinants of migration, focusing particularly on the role of age and aging. We … subsequently discuss the literature concerning the implications of migration in the context of aging for labor markets, health and …

determinants and human capital on migration and vice versa. The period under analysis is 2005-2019 and considers mobility from five …

Economic research on labor migration in the developing world has traditionally focused on the role played by the … microdata, more attention has been paid to the effects of migration on the lives of family members left behind. This paper … examines how the temporary migration of parents for work affects the health outcomes of children left behind using the …