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 …

What is the greatest single class of distortions in the global economy? One contender for this
title is the tightly binding constraints on emigration from poor countries. Vast numbers of …

The debate on migration and development has swung back and forth like a pendulum, from
developmentalist optimism in the 1950s and 1960s, to neo-Marxist pessimism over the …

The attentive observer of globalization is at least intuitively aware of the centrality of the
issue of migration. Migration plays a major role in the complex (and unclear) process of …

At the dawn of the new millennium, international development agencies and governments
have “discovered” the potential of migration and remittances to stimulate development in …

Long established as the leading textbook on migration and used by students and scholars
alike all over the world, this fully revised and updated sixth edition continues to offer an …

We focus on the impact of migration prospects on human capital formation and growth in a
small, open develo** economy. We assume that agents are heterogeneous in skills and …

Using new data on emigration rates by education level, we examine the impact of brain
drain migration on human capital formation in develo** countries. We find evidence of a …

This article provides theoretical reasoning and empirical evidence that international
migration decisions are influenced by relative as well as absolute income considerations …

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 …