This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on
recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity …

This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants'
remittances. It is divided between a microeconomic section on the determinants of …

Many migrations are temporary—a fact that has often been ignored in the economic
literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration …

This article is about the economics of migrant remittances sent to develo** countries. I
review the overall magnitude of remittances and what current research reveals about the …

How do households respond to overseas members' economic shocks? Overseas Filipinos in
dozens of countries experienced sudden, heterogeneous changes in exchange rates during …

This paper poses and answers a number of critical questions about the relationship between
migration and entrepreneurship in the process of economic development. In doing so, we …

How can big data help to understand the migration phenomenon? In this paper, we try to
answer this question through an analysis of various phases of migration, comparing …

Are migration networks associated with lower capital costs, or the alleviation of capital
constraints? We examine these questions with data measuring access to remittance flows …

If migrants return to their origin countries, two questions arise which are of immediate
economic interest for both immigration and emigration country: what determines their …

Currently, two distinct bodies of scholarship address the increased volume and diversity of
global return migration since the mid-1990s. The economic sociology of return, which …