to acquire skills by home residents. This paper takes a further look at the link between skilled migration, education …, and remittances. It finds little support for the revisionist approach. First, a higher skilled content of migration is … composition of migration has a positive effect on the educational achievements in the home country. …

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …

Migration is historically a social phenomenon that not only has a significant effect on politics, economics, and social … aspects but also presents challenges to the security of states and alters population composition in countries. Labor migration …

Global migration is heavily skill-biased, with tertiary-educated workers being four times more likely to migrate than … workers with a lower education. In this paper, we quantify the global impact of this skill bias in migration. Based on a … the skill bias in migration, while a small number of sending countries is significantly worse off. The negative effect in …

in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …

origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …

Emigrants from Italy and Ireland contributed disproportionately to the Age of Mass Migration. That their departure … selectivity of migrant flows - both from sending and receiving country perspectives - has given rise to claims that migration … level of human capital in sending countries. On the other hand, the prospect of emigration and return migration may both …

In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and …

In 2009 the EU adopted a new migration policy instrument - the Blue Cards (BC) - for attracting highly skilled workers … address the skill drain issues, we propose and examine alternative migration policy options for the LDC. …