During the "Age of Mass Migration", many Chinese migrants came to the Netherlands Indies. We propose that these … construct a new dataset of migration and potential surplus earnings for different types of work. Our analyses show that high … earnings for skilled work, but not for unskilled work, strongly incentivized migration. Given the scarcity of skilled labour in …

, 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 …