Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …

-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …

This chapter focuses on the effects of skilled migration on developing countries. We first present new evidence on the … migration, we then survey the theoretical and empirical brain drain literature in a unified framework. Finally we use a …

We develop a model to study the effects of migration and remittances on inequality in the origin communities. While … inequality may be of opposite signs, suggesting that the dynamic relationship between migration/remittances and inequality may … offers a different interpretation from the usually assumed migration network effects. With no need to endogenize migration …