It has been argued that the brain drain's negative impact may be offset by the higher remittance levels skilled migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants of remittances it considers include migration levels or...

Extending both the "harmful brain drain" literature and the "beneficial brain gain" literature, this paper analyzes both the negative and the positive impact of migration by skilled individuals in a unified framework. The paper extends the received literature on the "harmfulbrain drain" by...

This paper synthesizes and extends recent research on "The New Economics of the Brain Drain." In a unified framework, the paper shows that while recently identified adverse repercussions of the brain drain exacerbate the long-recognized impacts of the brain drain, longer-term consequences turn...

Migration kann helfen, Armut zu reduzieren - dies umso mehr, je besser Migrations- und Entwicklungspolitik aufeinander abgestimmt werden. Vor allem müsse es gelingen, einen größeren Teil der Rücküberweisungen der Emigranten - immerhin über 200 Mrd. $ pro Jahr - in Bildung statt in Konsum...