We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how … migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin communities. An important feature of our … model is that we take into account the impact of migration on the local (rural) labor market. Migration is shown to decrease …

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth … distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a lowskilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign … country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled employment in the home country. Thus it prevents a fraction of …

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. …

This paper provides a micro-funded theory of multilateral resistance to migration analyzing how financial constraints … determine migration trends. We build a RUM model in which we explicitly introduce the budget constraint in the migration … decision: individuals cannot afford migrating to a destination for which the migration cost (which depends on the immigration …

migration duration for patterns of selection by integrating two workhorses of the labor literature, a search model and a Roy … cognitive ability. Longer migration episodes lead to stronger positive selection on both education and ability, as its … permanent migration, where search costs are higher. Labor market frictions explain observed complex network-skill interactions. …

.S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …

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 …

unemployment, and interregional labour migration. The RHOMOLO model is parameterised by estimating the key structural parameters … channels of adjustment to macro-economic and policy shocks in the EU. In contrast, labour migration plays a secondary role in …