Emigration first increases before decreasing with economic development. This bell-shaped relationship between … emigration and development was first hypothesized by the theory of the mobility transition (Zelinsky, 1971). Although several …

In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD … wage effects of immigration and emigration. We use a range of parameter values spanning most of the estimates in the …, emigration had a negative effect on the wage of less educated native workers and it contributed to increase within country …

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous … variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull … factors in destination countries, and find that larger emigration rates reduced firm creation and innovative start-ups. We …

institutions and early development. Our instrumental-variables estimates provide evidence of a robust, positive effect of openness …