This paper proposes a two-country model of migration in a transferable skill sector, where workers education is provided free of charge by governments. We study …firstly the non-cooperative equilibrium where the poor country decides on the education level and the rich country decides on the...

This paper analyzes international migrations when migrants invest part of their income in their origin country. This investment contributes to increase capital intensity and wages in the origin country, thus reducing the scope for migrating. We show that a non-total migratory equilibrium can...

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants income and remittances and between remittancesand the labor supply of residents. The model is cast as a two-period game with imperfect informationabout the residents' real economic situation. Residents subject to a good economic situation may...

This paper proposes a two-country model of migration in a transferable skill sector, where workers'education is provided free of charge by governments. We study firstly the non-cooperative equilibrium where the poor country decides on the education level and the rich country decides on the quota...

This paper analyzes the interaction between migrants' income and remittances and between remittances and the labour supply of residents. The model is cast as a two-period game with imperfect information about the residents' real economic situation. Residents subject to a good economic situation...

Like all human beings, migrants may have a concern about their prestige or social status in the eyes of left-home family and friends. They can remit money in order to signal their economic success and increase their status. We show that if migrants' income is private information, unsuccessful...

This paper analyses the impact of remittances sent by altruistic migrants on the labor supply of left-home residents. The model is cast as a game between the migrant and the resident, where the former has only an imperfect information about the true economic situation of the latter. The optimal...