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 …

Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending … there is a demographic speed up in the making. Our estimates suggest that the pressure on emigration out of Africa will …

economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased …

development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or … and review the evidence on these channels. The recent empirical literature shows that high-skill emigration need not … Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …

groups within and across countries. We illustrate the roles these characteristics play in the process of economic development …

path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical …

education, and with the interaction between the two, and it decreases with the emigration of skilled labor (brain drain); ii …