Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Overview -- Introduction -- Who Is a Migrant? What Is the Extent of International Migration? -- Do International Migration and Remittances Reduce Poverty? -- What is the Link between Migration and Remittances on the One Hand and Investments in Education and Educational Outcomes on the Other? -- Do Migration and Remittances Contribute to Health Outcomes? -- Do Migration and Remittances Raise Investments in Capital Assets and Small Businesses? -- What Is the Impact of Migration on Origin Countries' Birth Rates and on the Extent to Which Demographic Transition Has Been Attained? -- What Are the Impacts of Host-Country Regulations on Migrants? -- What Determines Return and Repeat Migration? -- How Do Return Migrants Fare Relative to Nonmigrants with Similar Characteristics? -- Future Research -- Notes -- References -- PART 1 Global Migration Database -- 1 Quantifying International Migration: A Database of Bilateral Migrant Stocks1 -- Introduction -- Who Counts as a Migrant? -- About the Data -- Sources of Migrant Stock Data -- Comparability of Migration Statistics -- The Data Collected -- Versions of the Data Matrix -- Version 4a -- Version 4b -- Version 4c -- What the Data Show -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Annex 1.1: Summary of Data Sources -- Annex 2: Entropy Measure -- PART 2 Impact on Development -- 2 The Impact of Remittances on Poverty and Human Capital: Evidence from Latin American Household Surveys -- Introduction -- Data and Methodology -- Data -- Econometric Methodology -- Results -- Remittances and Human Capital -- Educational Attainment -- Health Outcomes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3 Does Work Migration Spur Investment in Origin Communities? Entrepreneurship, Schooling, and Child Health in Rural Pakistan.

Introduction -- Data and Context -- Migrant Characteristics, Migration Destination, and Return Migration -- Community Migration Prevalence Rates and Selection into Migration -- Migration and Household Structure -- Return Migration, Entrepreneurship, and Investment -- Impact of Migration on Child Schooling and Labor Market Activity -- Schooling -- Child Labor -- Female Headship, Child Schooling, and Labor Market Activity -- Migration and Child Health -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Annex 3.1 -- 4 Entrepreneurship, Labor Markets, and International Remittances: Evidence from El Salvador -- Introduction -- Migration and Remittances in El Salvador -- Data and Descriptive Statistics -- Migration, Remittances, and Labor Supply -- Migration, Remittances, and Entrepreneurship -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 5 The Demographic Benefit of International Migration: A Hypothesis and Its Application to Middle Eastern and North African Contexts -- Introduction -- Demographic Ideal of a Closed Population -- Modeling the Impact of International Migration on Birth Rates -- Downstream Demographic Adjustment of Migrants -- Patriarchal versus Individualistic Values Sent Home by Migrants -- Upstream Diffusion of Demographic Models by Migrants -- Conclusion: Global Demographic Benefit of Migration -- Notes -- References -- Appendix -- PART 3 Host Country Policy Effects -- 6 Immigration Incentives and Policy in Switzerland -- Introduction -- Swiss Immigration Policy and Its Instruments -- Types of Work Permits -- Immigration Policy -- Specific Ceilings: 1963-70 -- Global Ceiling: 1970-90 -- Global Ceiling and Priority for EU Workers: 1990-2002 -- Flows of Migrants -- Inflow of Migrants -- Outflow of Migrants -- Quotas and the Rotation Principle: An Evaluation -- Source Countries -- Case Study: The Former Yugoslavia -- What Drives Immigration?.

Global Ceiling Only -- Global Ceiling and Priority for EU Workers -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Annex 6.1: Description of Variables -- 7 The Impact of an Ex-Ante Job Offer Requirement on Labor Migration: The New Zealand-Tongan Experience -- Introduction -- The PAC and Tongan Migration to New Zealand -- Data from the Pacific Island-New Zealand Migration Survey -- Applicants' Motives for Migration -- Migrants Selected by the PAC -- Potential Migrants' Mechanisms for Finding and Obtaining Job Offers -- Translation of Job Offers into Jobs -- Policy Challenges and Changes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- PART 4 Return Migration -- 8 Returns to Overseas Work Experience: The Case of Egypt -- Introduction -- Egyptian Migration and the Data -- The Case of Egypt: A Brief Background -- The Data -- Econometric Framework -- Empirical Findings -- Effect of Overseas Temporary Migration -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Annex 8A: Data -- Annex 8B: Technical -- 9 Foreign-Born Migr ation to and from Norway -- Introduction -- Data -- Immigrant and Out-migrant Flows, 1967-2003 -- Time of Out-migration -- Repatriation of Refugees: The Diverging Experiences of Refugees from Bosnia and Kosovo -- Economic Fundamentals and Migration Flows -- Immigrant Flows -- Out-Migrant Flows -- Third-Country Migrant Flows -- Reimmigration Flows -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.