selective out-migration literature, our basic structure assumes that the process that determines out-migration is unrelated to …

the primary focus is on international migration, reference is made to internal migration and return migration. The … favorable selectivity is more intense the greater the out-of-pocket (direct) costs of migration and return migration, the … greater the effect of the higher level of ability on lowering the costs of migration, and the smaller the relative skill …

. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving …

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 …