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 …

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …

the net benefits of migration for future migrants by lowering assimilation costs ('self-selection' channel) and increase … externality is strong: the elasticity of migration flows to network size is around one. Second, only a quarter of this elasticity …

to acquire skills by home residents. This paper takes a further look at the link between skilled migration, education …, and remittances. It finds little support for the revisionist approach. First, a higher skilled content of migration is … composition of migration has a positive effect on the educational achievements in the home country. …

Option Theory, investigates the roots of the migration dynamics. In the model the decision to migrate of each individual … jumps in the migration flows and to describe how the trigger for entry can change depending on the dimension of the district …

This paper tries to explain why most migration flows show some observable jumps in their processes, a phenomenon that … seems to be sympathetic with the characteristic of irreversibility of migration. We present a real option model where the … probability of being fully integrated into the host country. The theoretical results show that the optimal migration decision of a …

Migration has a strong economic impact on the sending and host countries. Since individuals and groups do not benefit … equally from migration, interest groups emerge to protect and take care of their narrow self-interests and compete for rents … generated by migration. Narrow self-interests may be present not only for interest groups but also for ruling politicians and …