A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: established migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …

A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: established migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …

country with higher labour endowment. -- International Migration ; Remittances ; Migration Tax ; Oligopolistic Competition …

A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: "established" migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …

A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: "established" migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the … countries combining low levels of human capital and low migration rates of skilled workers tend to be positively affected by the … brain drain. By contrast, the brain drain appears to have negative growth effects in countries where the migration rate of …

Empirical research on the determinants of international migration including the LDCs has so far neglected one important … issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …