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 …

High-skilled emigration has been found to affect developing economies via different channels. With a calibrated general … effects, those countries facing prevalent high-skilled emigration are the most candid victims to brain drain. …