unique opportunity to evaluate the labor market effects of emigration. Outmigration has contributed to higher wages for … stayers, as well as to lower unemployment in the source country. However, emigration has also exacerbated skills shortages in …

Knowing whether corruption leads to higher emigration rates - and among which groups - is important because most labor … emigration is from developing to developed countries. If corruption leads highly-skilled and highlyeducated workers to leave … unemployment, lowering the returns to human capital and encouraging further emigration. Corruption also shifts public spending from …

emigration increases wages in the sending country but only for non-emigrants with substitutable skills similar to those of …

consequences of emigration from developing countries and the motivations behind the restrictions imposed by the developed countries …

should be directed towards emigration. Using a new dataset on migration flows by education levels for the period 1990 … natives, ranging from zero in Italy to +1.7 percent in Australia. Second, emigration had a mild to significant negative long … improved the income distribution of European countries while emigration worsened it by increasing the wage gap between the high …