Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

• Published in: Regional science and urban economics Vol. 42; no. 5; pp. 817 - 828
• Main Authors: Docquier, Frédéric, Rapoport, Hillel, Salomone, Sara
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam Elsevier B.V 01.09.2012; Elsevier Sequoia S.A
• Subjects: Brain drain; Correlation analysis; Education; Human Capital; Immigration Policy; Migrants; Migration; Prediction; Remittances; Studies; O15; J61; Migration; Immigration policy; F22; F24; Brain drain; Remittances

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...