Despite the bulk of international migrants being youth, little is known about the factors driving young people's migration behavior at the global level. Using the individual-level survey data from Gallup World Poll across 139 countries over the period 2010-2016, this study contributes to the...

We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...

This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...

Gibt es einen Exodus des deutschen Forschernachwuchses vor allem in die Vereinigten Staaten? Margret Wintermantel, Präsidentin der Hochschulrektorenkonferenz, sieht ein Problem in den Rahmenbedingungen, die die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit der deutschen Hochschulen bestimmen. Ihrer Meinung nach sind...

Gibt es einen Exodus des deutschen Forschernachwuchses vor allem in die Vereinigten Staaten? Ergänzend zu den Beiträgen im ifo Schnelldienst 4/2008 unterstreichen Lydia Hartwig und Johanna Witte, Bayerisches Staatsinstitut für Hochschulforschung und Hochschulplanung, München, die...

This special issue of the International Review of Economics and Finance contributes to the received literature of the dynamics of international migration by highlighting the role of tradition in propelling migration; by admitting that the human capital formation response to the prospect of...

Do migration policies affect whether immigrants contribute more to public finances than they receive as transfer payments? Yes. But simply accumulating the annual fiscal transfers to and fiscal contributions by migrants is not sufficient to identify the policy impact and the potential need for...