This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing … together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the … legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross …

migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in … components of human-capital, such as age, education and diversity of origin. To address the possible endogeneity of migration we …

Over the 40 years the pattern of migration has changed significantly with an increase in the share of female migrants … close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes how low skill rural-urban migration in Brazil from 1986 to 2000 … historical patterns of migrations, we are able to build an exogenous migration shock by skill to cities. Using this as an …

that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … sending and receiving countries. In a calibrated multi-country model, we compare the current world to a counterfactual with …

International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development … and human capital accumulation in a multi-country context. We then embed this migration-education nexus into a development … accounting framework to quantify the effects of migration on development and inequality. We find that selective emigration …

Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …

country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and …

perspective of international migration, that is, by the possibility of a “brain drain.” In addition, the analysis shows that a … migration ; Human capital formation ; "Educated unemployment" ; Beneficial brain drain …

country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and …

country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and …