Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita …

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 … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and … literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …

-disaster development assistance to Haiti. We find that the effects of matching new seasonal agricultural jobs in the US with Haitian … and the potential for policies of this kind to complement more traditional forms of development and humanitarian …

How does immigration affect incomes in the countries migrants go to, and how do rising incomes shape emigration from …-income countries the income elasticity of emigration demand is 0.23. The world's poor collectively treat migration not as an inferior … good, but as a normal good. Any negative effect of higher income on emigration within subpopulations can reverse in the …

international emigration in this or any other region. This paper studies the relationship between violence in the Northern Triangle …