INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION FLOWS: GENDER DIVERSITY

National and international graduate migration flows.

This article examines the nature of national and international graduate migration flows in the UK. Migration equations are estimated with microdata from a matched dataset of Students and Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education, information collected by the Higher Education Statistical Agency. The probability of migrating is related to a set of observable characteristics using multinomial ...

"International Migration and Gender Discrimination among Children Left Behind"

This paper considers how international migration of the head of household affects the allocation of resources toward boys relative to girls within households remaining in the home country. I address the endogeneity of migration with a differences-in-differences style regression model that compares those households in which migrants have already returned home with those in which migrants are sti...

Analysis of Migration Flows to 22 Areas of Tehran

The political situation in Tehran has caused the city to become a commercial, industrial, administrative, educational and military center of Iran for decades. Such a situation has created waves of immigration and displacement of population from all over the country to the city. In order to understand the situation of the immigrant population of Tehran, this paper uses census data from 2006 and ...

Controlling International Capital Flows

The East Asian financial crisis in the late 1990s has challenged the widely-held belief that international financial markets should be deregulated. The common arguments both for and against free international capital flows are analysed and contrasted. Given the existence of various distortions and market failures in the global economy, there is a case for some degree of control. The extension a...

International Capital Flows