redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We … analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …

The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those … suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic …

. I exploit this emigration wave to study the effect of emigration on wages in the sending country. Using household data … from Lithuania and work permit and census data from the UK and Ireland, I demonstrate that emigration had a significant … positive effect on the wages of stayers. A one percentage-point increase in the emigration rate predicts a 0.67% increase in …

Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the Italian emigrants (age, sex, skill level), their … area of origins and the directions of their movement. The determinants of the migration choice are then analyzed as well as …

The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining … migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved … in migration, some send a subset of members with the rest remaining whilst other households migrate en masse. We address …

relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …

The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an … new light on this question by comparing pre- and post-crisis migration movements at the regional level in both Europe and … the United States, and their association with asymmetric labour market shocks. We find that recent migration flows have …

, I show that poor households' entitlement to an exogenous, temporary but guaranteed income stream increases US migration … collateral to finance the migration. The individuals who start migrating because of this income shock belong to households with …. These results suggest that financial constraints to international migration are binding for poor Mexicans, some of whom …