This paper documents a stylized fact: the Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and …, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The … fundamentals driving these emigration life cycles to the United States since 1970 – income and education gaps between the US and …

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. …

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 …

life satisfaction and emigration intentions: it is the most and the least life-satisfied people who are the most likely to … express intentions to emigrate. This result is found in countries with different levels of economic development and …

simple model, which highlights the theoretical case for a substitution effect between voicing and emigration. We subsequently … numbers of press reports, is associated with lower emigration rates. This substitution effect holds for both internal and …