Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the reasons that children migrate without a parent. Design/methodology/approach – The economic components of the answer to this question are considered by examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15 whose mothers reside in...

Many studies have addressed the effect of migration on both home and host countries, but few have focused on the effect of the economic flows derived from migration, especially for the Central and East European (CEE) countries. In this paper we analyse the effect of remittances on employment...

Migration of skilled workers from developing countries has increased substantially in recent years. Traditionally, such patterns raised fears on the ground of the associated 'brain drain' as human capital formation is considered to be of central importance to the development and reduction of...

This paper explores the impact of English proficiency on the labour supply of recent immigrants in Australia. While previous research finds that English proficiency is crucial for participation and employment of immigrants, almost no research, and none in Australia, has been done with respect to...

Temporary and circular migration programs have been devised by many destination countries and supported by the European Commission as a policy to reduce welfare and social costs of immigration in destination countries. In this paper we present an additional reason for proposing temporary...

Developing countries are experiencing unprecedented levels of urbanization. Although most of these movements are motivated by economic reasons, they could affect the human capital accumulation of the children who follow their parents to the cities. This paper estimates the causal effect of...

The paper examines the claim of forced migration due to increasing environmental calamities by first citing various relevant studies on different countries. The review of the existing studies gives rise to a mixed conclusion. Some countries really exhibit the phenomenon of forced migration but...

The number of migrants from conflict regions in Africa has been increasing dramatically. The European Union shares dual responsibility for the continuing migration pressure: First, because it fostered over decades corrupt and autocratic regimes with dire disregard to principles of 'good...

This study examines how rising interprovincial migration with diverse education backgrounds affects new human capital formation in China in the 1990s. Consistently with a simple model of migration-oriented investment and disinvestment in higher education, we identify that gross outflow migration...

Migration of the unskilled clearly benefits the origin country, mainly due to the flow of remittances but also if the departure of some raises the ability of others to migrate. This depends on whether trade is a complement or a substitute for migration. The impact of such flows on the...