Resumen: This paper examines the relationship between the education level of Spanish emigrants and their destination country. Since Spanish emigrants were born under the same laws and institutions, the differences in their destination countries can be due to dissimilarities in their level of education. To explore this, we use census microdata, covering the period from 2000 to 2007, of 21 countries with Spanish emigrants. Results suggest that with low unemployment rates, English- and Spanish-speaking countries are the most likely to become the host countries for more educated individuals, regardless of their location. Idioma: Inglés DOI: 10.2478/izajodm-2021-0006 Año: 2021 Publicado en: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 12, 1 (2021), 06 [27 pp.] ISSN: 2520-1786 Factor impacto CITESCORE: 1.4 - Social Sciences (Q2) - Economics, Econometrics and Finance (Q3) - Business, Management and Accounting (Q3)