flows -- such as Jamaica or El Salvador -- are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances …This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … difference, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of …

somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has focused on the link between skilled out-migration and educational … home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an …

evaluating the response of regional government’s expenditures to changes in the size of the GRP (gross regional product) and to … changes in the region’s tax collections. While the results related to regional shares of tax revenues and expenditures are … than for tax revenues but greater than for budget expenditures, which stresses the effectiveness of budget equalization …

finding, we describe a model of multi-trait matching and inheritance, in which individuals’ attractiveness in the marriage …

regions, we apply a flexible propensity score matching approach that controls for selection on observables as well as on time …

diminishing returns to the number of workers. We examine the sorting of factors to sectors and the matching of factors within …