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. …

issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …

economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased …

feedback effects, those countries with high skilled emigration rates are the most candid victims to brain drain since they are …. -- Brain drain ; capital flow ; development ; human capital ; remittances …

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