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

the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …

Using uncertainty about the future returns to migration, the option value theory of migration can explain low migration … in the 1990s, we use information on the stage of the application process, migration intentions and ethnicity to construct … close proxies for the option value of postponing migration and for migration costs. The link between the two is shown to be …

capital. Yet a strictly positive probability of migration to a richer country, by raising both the level of human capital … migration policy the welfare of all workers is higher than in the absence of this policy. -- migration ; human capital formation …

dynamics of migration. -- migration dynamics ; migrants' transfers ; follow-up migration …

A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid "social humiliation". In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …

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. …