| Foreword | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Contributors | p. xiii |
| Overview | p. 1 |
| Migration and Remittances | p. 19 |
| Determinants of Migration, Destination, and Sector Choice: Disentangling Individual, Household, and Community Effects | p. 21 |
| Remittances, Poverty, and Investment in Guatemala | p. 53 |
| Remittances and Poverty in Migrants' Home Areas: Evidence from the Philippines | p. 81 |
| Beyond Remittances: The Effects of Migration on Mexican Households | p. 123 |
| Brain Drain, Brain Gain, Brain Waste | p. 149 |
| International Migration by Education Attainment, 1990-2000 | p. 151 |
| Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated | p. 201 |
| Educated Migrants: Is There Brain Waste? | p. 227 |
| Skilled Immigrants, Higher Education, and U.S. Innovation | p. 245 |
| Index | p. 261 |
| Figures | |
| Labor Migrants as Percentage of Mexican Village Populations, by Migrant Destination, 1980-2002 | p. 23 |
| Labor Migrants as Percentage of Mexican Village Populations, by Migrant Destination and Sector of Employment, 1980-2002 | p. 33 |
| Exchange Rates in Selected Locations of Overseas Filipinos, July 1996 to October 1998 | p. 87 |
| Estimated Probability of a Household Head Migrating, by Household Consumption Level at Different Deciles of the Community Migration Prevalence Distribution | p. 134 |
| Brain Gain, Brain Drain, and Net Brain Gain | p. 205 |
| Endogenous Migration Probability | p. 206 |
| Group Heterogeneity | p. 208 |
| Brain Drain and LDC's Growth | p. 219 |
| Distribution of a[subscript j] | p. 228 |
| Migration Patterns from Select Countries | p. 233 |
| Migration Patterns from Select Countries for People with Tertiary Education | p. 234 |
| Tertiary Education at Home and among Immigrants to the United States, 1990s | p. 235 |
| Composition of Migrants to Europe and the United States by Education | p. 236 |
| Portion of Migrants with Tertiary Education Who Obtain Skilled Jobs, 1990s Arrivals | p. 238 |
| Skilled Immigrants | p. 247 |
| H1B Beneficiaries, 1992-2003 | p. 248 |
| Foreign Students | p. 248 |
| H1B Beneficiaries by Country, 2003 | p. 254 |
| Tables | |
| Descriptive Statistics | p. 28 |
| Variable Means by Migrant Destination and Sector of Employment | p. 30 |
| One- and Two-Destination Multinomial Logit Model Results | p. 34 |
| Two-Destination, Two-Sector Multinomial Logit Model Results | p. 36 |
| Estimated Marginal Effects on Migration Probabilities | p. 42 |
| Estimated Marginal Effects on Migration-Sector Probabilities | p. 43 |
| Baseline Probability for Each Migration Destination-Sector Regime | p. 44 |
| Summary Data on Nonremittance Households and Remittance-Receiving Households, Guatemala, 2000 | p. 56 |
| Multinomial Logit Model for Guatemala | p. 60 |
| Household Income Estimates (Selection Corrected) for Guatemala | p. 62 |
| Regression to Estimate Predicted Per Capita Household Expenditure (Excluding Remittances) | p. 65 |
| Predicted Per Capita Expenditures for Nonremittance Households and Remittance-Receiving Households, Guatemala, 2000 | p. 67 |
| Effect of Remittances on Poverty for Nonremittance Households and Remittance-Receiving Households, Guatemala, 2000 | p. 69 |
| OLS Regression Analysis of Household Expenditure in Guatemala, without Remittance Variables | p. 72 |
| OLS Regression Analysis of Household Expenditure in Guatemala, with Remittance Variables | p. 74 |
| Marginal Budget Shares on Expenditure for Nonremittance Households and Remittance-Receiving Households, Guatemala, 2000 | p. 76 |
| Locations of Overseas Workers from Sample Households | p. 85 |
| Characteristics of Overseas Workers from Sample Households | p. 86 |
| Descriptive Statistics for Households with Overseas Migrants | p. 94 |
| Descriptive Statistics for Households without Overseas Migrants | p. 96 |
| Impact of Migrant Exchange Rate Shocks, 1997-8 | p. 102 |
| Impact of Region-Level Migrant Exchange Rate Shocks on Nonmigrant Households, 1997-8 | p. 108 |
| Impact of Region-Level Migrant Exchange Rate Shocks, 1997-8 | p. 111 |
| Impact of Migrant Exchange Rate Shocks on Child Human Capital and Entrepreneurship, 1997-8 | p. 114 |
| The Impact of Migration on Health Outcomes and Health Inputs | p. 129 |
| The Impact of Migration on Maternal Health Knowledge | p. 131 |
| Network Size and Probability of Migration | p. 133 |
| The Impact of Migration on Consumption Inequality in ENADID Communities | p. 136 |
| Impact of Migration on Years of Schooling | p. 140 |
| Data Sources | p. 162 |
| International Mobility by Educational Attainment-An Overview | p. 164 |
| Data by Country Group in 2000 | p. 170 |
| Top 30 Skilled Immigration Countries 2000 | p. 175 |
| Net Brain Gain in OECD Countries in 1990 | p. 178 |
| Net Brain Gain in OECD Countries in 2000 | p. 182 |
| Impact of the Brain Drain on Education | p. 220 |
| Country-Level Determinants of Probability of Obtaining A Skilled Job, 1990s | p. 241 |
| Country-Level Determinants of Probability of Obtaining A Skilled Job, 1990s, with European Migration Policy Indicators | p. 242 |
| The Impacts of Foreign Graduate Students and Skilled Immigrants on Patent Applications and Grants, 1965-2001 | p. 252 |
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