We analyze self-selection of refugees and irregular migrants and test our theory in the context of the European refugee … crisis. Using unique datasets from the International Organization for Migration and Gallup World Polls, we provide the first … large-scale evidence on reasons to emigrate, and the self-selection and sorting of refugees and irregular migrants. Refugees …

jointly, however, mainly due to the lack of relevant data. This paper addresses this shortcoming by looking at the gender … identify people by country of residence, place of birth, gender and level of education. The evidence summarized in this paper … are now more or less gender-balanced. A more surprising result is that this is also true for the highly skilled. Taking …

around the world have placed greater focus on the varied impacts of migration in recent years. Critical to this line of …

the main gateway of the Venezuelan refugees and migrants entering Brazil, and focusing on the formal sector employment of … are heterogenous, suggesting distribution impacts and need for gender targeted policies …

Violent conflict is a well-recognised driver of forced migration but literature does not usually consider the pull … significant economic variable. In addition, we demonstrate that it is episodes of escalating conflict, rather than accumulated … violence, that drives decisions to leave.Out-of-sample predictions indicate that if conflict in origin countries were to cease …

use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain … drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000 … higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated with the gender gap in …

for males and females separately, and controlling for pre- and post-migration characteristics. We find strong gender …