Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …

migration but uses the help of cartelized smugglers. To overcome this trade-off we study how legalisation and repression can be … combined to eliminate human smuggling while controlling migration flows. This policy mix also has the advantage that the funds …

This paper examines the impact of migration on educational attainments in rural Mexico. Using historical migration … rates by state to instrument for current migration, we find evidence of a significant negative effect of migration on … completing high-school. The negative effect of migration on schooling is somewhat mitigated for younger girls with low educated …

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

view tends to neglect two important dynamic e ffects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants …' quality, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks …-equivalent migration costs by education level relate to networks. The results imply that the relationship between networks and immigrants …

household-level idiosyncratic shocks. Importantly, we find that the availability of mobile money increased migration out of …

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 …

Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …

gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan … participation. Both women acquiring greater access to education and men increasing their migration abroad contribute to reducing the …

skilled migration to the US, both Asian and European, and test whether foreign inventors' patents are disproportionately cited …