Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

household members migrating internally) have a greater impact on education than do external remittances. We posit that this may … be due to a higher value placed on Nepali education by internal migrants as compared to the education needed for foreign …

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

to acquire skills by home residents. This paper takes a further look at the link between skilled migration, education … return home after having acquired a set of productive skills. Finally, the ability to migrate abroad may boost the incentive …, and remittances. It finds little support for the revisionist approach. First, a higher skilled content of migration is …

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … education of her children back home. We find that this aspirations effect increases the average skill level in the society for a … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population …

migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …

household members migrating internally) have a greater impact on education than do external remittances. We posit that this may … be due to a higher value placed on Nepali education by internal migrants as compared to the education needed for foreign …

in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … education of her children back home. We find that this aspirations effect increases the average skill level in the society for a … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population …

migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …