We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …

migrants in most of the major receiving states of the EU, the status of the predominantly low-skilled sector-employed migrant …

redistribution receive a negative selection of Italian migrants. This holds true after accounting for many individual and country … level covariates, migration costs, and when testing for stochastic dominance of the skill distributions of migrants and …

. (4) Within a sending country, Australia attracts less total but higher-skill migrants than does the United States. This … composition of employment migrants. There is no evidence that the differences in the selection mechanism used to screen employment … migrants in the two countries play a significant role in affecting the characteristics of skill migration …

The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to … predictions and empirical evidence can be resolved when the human capital of migrants is assessed using a two-dimensional measure …

possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … embodied in migrants; assimilation, the degree to which migrants' productivity determinants become like natives' over time in …

from the impact for already settled migrants. We analyze the effect of migration on wages within cells of education …, economic and social reasons. This paper is the first to disentangle the impact of migration on wages for native Costa Rican …, immigration has no effect on the wages of both natives and migrant workers with comparable skills for the period 2011 to 2019. The …

that Mexican migrants to the United States have higher manual skills and lower cognitive skills than non-migrants …