This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …

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

brain drain. By contrast, the brain drain appears to have negative growth effects in countries where the migration rate of …We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using … recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the …

destinations, and +0.74 to rich destinations. This relationship between emigration flows and economic growth is highly robust to …

and mobility decisions, population growth, and income disparities across and within countries. First, our static … for the 21st century. Assuming the continuation of recent education and migration policies, we predict stable disparities …

We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with … realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with … different levels of migration frictions. We bring the model to the data for the whole world economy at a 1º times 1º geographic …

open up their immigration policies so as to enable migrants' remittances to substitute for foreign aid as a growth …-stimulant in poor, migrant-sending countries. In this paper, we use an endogenous growth model to argue that the growth effects of … transnational migration and remittances are entirely mediated by the human capital profile of emigrants, as determined by …