skilled migration, it provides evidence that controls for migration age in order to distinguish between those educated in the …

migration by country of origin and education level. An exception is the paper by Carrington and Detragiache (1998), which … provided skilled migration rates for 61 developing countries in 1990. This study relies on a set of tentative assumptions. For … migration rates, to test for the (push and pull) determinants per skill group, to evaluate the growth effects of migration on …

assuage fears of reverse causality between migration and human capital formation. The results highlight a significant impact … of European Union accession on human capital formation indicating that the prospect of migration can indeed fuel skill … formation even in the context of middle-income economies. And, if accompanied by policies to promote return migration, as well …

"Docquier and Rapoport focus on the consequences of skilled migration for developing countries. They first present new … evidence on the magnitude of migration of skilled workers at the international level and then discuss its direct and indirect … implications, with emphasis on migration and education policy in a context of globalized labor markets. This paper--a product of …

The Migration and Remittances Factbook 2011 updates the 2008 edition of the Factbook with additional data for 71 … national sources. The Factbook attempts to present numbers and facts behind the stories of international migration and … remittances, drawing on authoritative, publicly available data. It provides a snapshot of statistics on immigration, emigration …

International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries to improve economic opportunity, has … countries is the receipt of remittances or transfers from income earned by overseas emigrants. Official data show that …

percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in many developing countries. Migration and remittances factbook 2011 provides a …There are more than 215 million international migrants in the world. Recorded remittances received by developing … each country and regional grouping. More frequent and timely monitoring of migration and remittance trends can provide …

migration and remittances data. Remittance flows and the stock of migrants may be underestimated due to the use of informal …This fact book for 2008 attempts to present numbers and facts behind the stories of international migration and … remittances, drawing on authoritative, publicly available data. It provides a snapshot of statistics on immigration, emigration …