's migration behavior at the global level. Using the individual-level survey data from Gallup World Poll across 139 countries over …

of the world population living in extreme poverty. …

unresolved related issue of whether remittances actually increase with migrants' level of education. The determinants of … remittances considered include migration levels and rates; migrants' education level; and source countries' income, financial … considered in the few existing studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease for migrants with tertiary …

home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an … home out of a given flow of earnings abroad. We then derive an empirical equation of remittances and estimate it on a large …