This study analyzes the qualitative aspects of emigration from Germany taking account of economic and non …

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous … variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull … factors in destination countries, and find that larger emigration rates reduced firm creation and innovative start-ups. We …

Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain …? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively …

effect of education on emigration intentions. Our IV estimates indicate that an additional year of schooling increases the … effect of education on emigration intentions does not operate through financial dissatisfaction but rather through …

Estimating the impact of risk aversion on emigration at the individual level is complicated by selection issues. In … capture a (negative) relationship between risk aversion and emigration intention, a Control Function strategy using the two …

This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants’ origin. We use an instrumental … variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that … emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender inequality is associated with promotion of more (less) progressive …