This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...

Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and presents a unified model, wherein the two migration...

The process of globalization seems to have created two opposing forces, outsourcing and international migration, which are likely to have a balancing impact on the global economy. While the developing countries are losing skilled labor through ‘brain drain' to their developed counterparts,...