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 …

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 …

- often called brain drain - has been at the center of a heated debate about the welfare consequences of emigration from …

We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration (Bang and … may lead to higher skilled emigration. A regression model that accounts for the time-varying definition of migration and … emigration. …

Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the late 1990s strongly affected electoral outcomes and political … relies on the quasi-experimental context studied and on the differential effects arising from the fact that emigration was …