This paper assesses the potential for skilled labor migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. It utilizes … beneficial migration between Africa and Europe. …, workers in Ghana and Kenya are substantially less skilled than workers in Europe. The paper further considers a number of …

This paper assesses the potential for skilled labor migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. It utilizes … beneficial migration between Africa and Europe. …, workers in Ghana and Kenya are substantially less skilled than workers in Europe. The paper further considers a number of …

different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within … Western Europe is small and rather balanced in terms of skill structures, while there appears to be a brain drain from Europe …

number has fueled fears about "Brain Drain" as only 3% of the population obtains tertiary education. Although migration … can compensate for the selection of high-skilled workers into migration. This papers measures the selection, incentive and … net effects of emigration from DR Congo, Ghana and Senegal to Europe. Institutional contexts and household characteristics …

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. …

view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …