This paper analyzes the spatial distribution of refugees over 1987-2017 and establishes several stylized facts about … refugees today compared with past decades. Refugees still predominantly reside in developing countries neighboring their … country of origin. However, compared to past decades, refugees today (i) travel longer distances, (ii) are less likely to seek …

of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … inequality because of emigration. Whereas, contrary to the popular belief, immigration had nearly equal but opposite effects … the wage effect of emigration, instead …

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 …

In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor …-supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for two fifths of Mexican labor flows to the … U.S. over the last two decades of the 20th century. Net emigration rates by Mexican state birth-year cohort display a …

The Latin countries -- Italy, Portugal and Spain -- were industrial late-comers and only experienced mass emigration … purchasing-power-parity adjusted real wages) for twelve European countries to find that Latin emigration behavior was no …

areas, however, may be deprived of talent through emigration, which may harm dynamism and delay political, and economic …, change. A significant episode of emigration took place between 2010 and 2014 from Italy following the deep economic recession …, city mayors and local vote, we analyze whether emigration reduced political change. The sudden emigration wave interacted …