somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has focused on the link between skilled out-migration and educational … home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an …

flows -- such as Jamaica or El Salvador -- are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances …This paper evaluates the global welfare impact of observed levels of migration using a quantitative multi-sector model … difference, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of …

evaluating the response of regional government’s expenditures to changes in the size of the GRP (gross regional product) and to … changes in the region’s tax collections. While the results related to regional shares of tax revenues and expenditures are … than for tax revenues but greater than for budget expenditures, which stresses the effectiveness of budget equalization …

finding, we describe a model of multi-trait matching and inheritance, in which individuals’ attractiveness in the marriage …

the elasticity of the matching function. …

characteristics that the analyst does not observe. The social optimum must therefore trade off matching on incomes and matching on … set of feasible matchings and of the socially optimal matching. Then we show how data on the covariation of the types of …

A new methodology is described which tests between various equilibrium theories of unemployment using matching data … identify a matching process using data which is recorded monthly, and also shows how to identify different unemployment … employment agency data for the UK over the period 1985-99. Although the standard random matching approach provides a reasonably …

who suffer involuntary layoffs. Matching and search-island models have labour market frictions and incomplete markets. The …

The matching function describes the flow of job creation as a function of the stocks of unemployed and vacancies. Most …