emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled … (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled …

We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish … between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a … country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for knowledge goods exhibit a kind of "home bias." In contrast to existing …

differential with destination countries is large, and when the emigration rate is relatively low.In contrast with the findings in … number of developing countries; they are equivalent to those under which an increase in emigration induces a net brain gain …

feedback effects, those countries with high skilled emigration rates are the most candid victims to brain drain since they are …

Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household … gain' arguments according to which the possibility of own future emigration positively impacts educational attainment in …

to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the … large, not everyone migrates and many return. Within this group of highly skilled individuals the emigration decision is …

positive skilled emigration rate (say between 5 and 10 percent) can also be good for development. Nevertheless, the current …