Italy is a country with a long history of emigration and a very short experience of immigration. The paper first … surveys the Italian emigration pattern describing the characteristics of the Italian emigrants (age, sex, skill level), their … area of origins and the directions of their movement. The determinants of the migration choice are then analyzed as well as …

analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic …The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to …

Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita … than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which …

suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic …The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those … transition in every decade since 1960. It then briefly surveys 45 years of research, which has yielded six classes of theory to …

, by forming good economic prospects, has reduced emigration as predicted by theory. Our estimates show that migration …Theory asserts that individuals' migration decisions depend more on their expectations about future income levels than … no link with migration patterns and this may be an important lesson for government policy. …

for the rate of return migration are then estimated using unique data on emigration rates matched to individual-level data …This paper analyzes the relationship between immigrants' retirement status and the prevalence of return migration from … conditions the probability of return migration is maximized at retirement. Reduced-form models of retirement status which control …

citizenship. In this paper I argue that both the degree of immigrant naturalization and subsequent emigration from Canada is …

The impacts of international migration on development in the sending countries, and especially the effects on remaining … migrants are complicated by a double-selectivity problem: households self-select into migration, and among households involved … in migration, some send a subset of members with the rest remaining whilst other households migrate en masse. We address …

Moldova, one of the countries with the highest emigration rates in the world, and an instrumental variable approach we find … that the strongest migration-related response in private education expenditure are substantially lower informal payments to … public school teachers. This fact is at odds with a positive income effect due to migration. In addition we find that …