This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries …. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm … to 2014 as a source of exogenous variation in the emigration rates from new EU member states. We argue that a potential …

data on 141 origin countries over the 1976-2013 period with bilateral Official Development Assistance data, we estimate the …

in the home country, measured as rainfall shocks at the time of emigration. Second, amnesty quotas that grant legal …

Moldova, we show that the emigration episode that started in the late 1990s strongly affected political preferences and …. Identification relies on the quasi-experimental context studied and on the differential effects arising from the fact that emigration …

production function for human capital, the country’s emigration rate, and the international wage differential. We use the model …