several interesting results. First, while migration is pursued by the relatively high-skilled, subsequent return migrants are …We consider the case in which the opening up of an economy to migration results in departure of skilled workers. We … point out that while the possibility of migration changes the set of employment opportunities, it also affects the structure …

capital. Yet a strictly positive probability of migration to a richer country, by raising both the level of human capital … formed by optimizing individuals in the home country and the average level of human capital of non-migrants in the country … migration policy the welfare of all workers is higher than in the absence of this policy. …

A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid social humiliation. In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …