This paper assesses the potential for skilled labor migration from sub-Saharan Africa to Europe. It utilizes … representative surveys from Ghana and Kenya to shed light on the quality and distribution of skills in the labor markets of these … countries. Skills in both countries are found to be unevenly distributed, with significant parts of the labor force being …

, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …

We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List … prevent draining developing nations of needed skills, today the Skills List in practice is outdated and misdirected. It is … outdated because it fails to reflect modern economic research on the complex effects of skilled migration on overseas …

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 …