This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …

-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor …-to-skills measures in predicting migration. Results are persistent over time and hold within narrowly defined regional, sectoral, and …

country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and …

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our … analysis is the recognition that for free trade, migration, or trade and migration to be adopted, the relevant policy must pass …

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …

country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in … long as the permanent migration probability is not too large, this positive effect causes both aggregate and per …

source and five destination countries we find selective migration determined by relative anthropometric inequality in source …

focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion requires direct human interaction implies that the international … diffusion of knowledge should follow the pattern of international migration. This is what this paper documents. Our main finding … is that migration, and particularly skilled immigration, is a strong and robust driver of productive knowledge diffusion …

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions and interregional migration are … change reduces wages of the unskilled. Both education and migration decisions are distorted by a uniform unemployment …