, firms statistically discriminate high-skilled migrants by paying them at their expected productivity. The decision of … whether to migrate or not depends on the proportion of high-skilled workers among the migrants. The migration game exhibits … migrants themselves. We also analyze under which conditions there is positive or negative self-selection of migrants. …

difference, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows -- such as Jamaica or El Salvador -- are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances … about 10% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability …

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 … achievements. In this paper, we emphasize a different channel. It is often argued that skilled migrants raise economic welfare at …

differences between temporary and permanent migrants. Utilizing household level data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP … differences disappear, however, for temporary migrants, if their remittances are taken into account. Fixed effects estimations of … the determinants of immigrants’ savings rates reveal that intended return migration does not only affect remittances, but …