In this paper, I selectively discuss recent empirical work on the consequences of global labor
mobility. I examine how international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending …

Growing social and economic inequalities, and consequently, unfulfilled life aspirations
trigger the migration intentions of millions, if not billions of people around the world. Surveys …

This chapter reports on the “economics of language” for immigrants—that is, the influence of
language on the choice of destination among international migrants, the determinants …

Sjaastad (1962) viewed migration in the same way as education: as an investment in the
human agent. Migration and education are decisions that are indeed intertwined in many …

Two prominent features of international labor movements are that the more educated are
more likely to emigrate (positive selection) and more educated migrants are more likely to …

Combining unique, annual, bilateral data on labor flows of highly skilled immigrants for 10
OECD destinations between 2000 and 2012, with new databases comprising both unilateral …

The relation between income and migration intentions can be monotonically decreasing,
increasing, or inverse U-shaped, dependent on the level of migration cost relative to wealth …

Emigration first increases and then decreases as a country experiences economic
development. This inverted U-shaped, cross-sectional relationship between emigration and …

In this paper we present a model that explains migrations as decisions that respond to
where human capital can be acquired more efficiently, and where the return to human …

A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from
three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among …