emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in … estimates the economic and demographic fundamentals driving these Third World emigration life cycles to the United States since … projections imply that pressure on Third World emigration over the next two decades will not increase. It also suggests that …

This paper develops a simple time-series model of emigration and applies it to data for emigration from the UK between … rates in the sending and the receiving countries influenced fluctuations in emigration. The short-run fluctuations were … driven largely by variations in employment rates while the long-run level of emigration was determined largely by the …

pay more attention to history. …

Emigration of labour and its subsequent repatriation can best be understood as phases of an intertemporal exchange … presented. The formulation of the emigration-repatriation cycle as an intertemporal phenomenon highlights the need for forward …

In this paper we evaluate quantitatively the impact of mass emigration from Ireland between the 1850s and the first … find that, in the absence of emigration, faster labour force growth would have resulted in lower real wage growth, reducing …

. Also, we find that virtually the entire positive relationship between education and the rate of emigration would be …

, such as elections. We collect new data to document the presence of voluntary and social organizations and the history of …

research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa’s peculiar history …