Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding … how culture manifests itself in the migration process for three groups of actors: the migrants, those remaining in the … migration as an economic phenomenon; but what about them matters? Properly, we should be looking at the determinants of identity …

large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. -- Remittances ; Migration ; Brain …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …

run, if matching is entirely random, either everybody obeys the same rule, or nobody obeys any. If matching is restricted …

production. We propose the use of matching techniques and balance checking at this initial stage. This can be interpreted as a … matching leads to results which are more stable with respect to model specification and that this type of formal preprocessing …

We develop a model to explain two-way migration of high-skilled individuals between countries that are similar in their … economic characteristics. High-skilled migration results from the combination of workers whose abilities are private knowledge … migration cost, high-skilled workers self-select into the group of migrants. The laissez-faire equilibrium features too much …

with a migration background. One year after leaving compulsory school, the gap between the natives and migrants that are on …

migration calibrated to US states and foreign countries. Reducing US migrant population shares back to 1980s levels increases …