study return migration and the impact of skilled international migration on human capital stocks across countries. Return … migration is a common phenomenon, with 38% of skilled migrants returning to their origin countries within 10 years. Return … migration is significantly correlated with industry growth in the origin and destination countries, and is asymmetrically …

We study migration in the right tail of the talent distribution using a novel dataset of Indian high school students … Technology (IIT). We find a high incidence of migration after students complete college: among the top 1,000 scorers on the exam …, for which we study migration after one university suddenly gained the IIT designation; and alumni networks, using …

Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration … that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and … for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We …

, remittances, return migration, or an emigration 'lottery'. Instead, they are driven purely by the public nature of knowledge goods …

We ask what level of migration would maximize world welfare. We find that skill-neutral policies are never optimal. An … countries. For intermediate welfare functions that moderately favor the rich however, it is optimal to have no migration at all …