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 …

to develop longitudinal measures of emigration and to assess how social ties and individual economic position predict … emigration. Cox proportional hazards models indicate that the propensity to emigrate is particularly pronounced for those with … those with relatively short durations in the country, have substantially higher emigration rates than later …