old are leaving East Germany, and that the emigration has accelerated in recent years. I document that low wages, high … networking rate, high average labor productivity, low unemployment and no emigration (quot;West Germany'') and one with a low … networking rate, low average labor productivity, high unemployment and a constant rate of emigration (quot;East Germany''). The …

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 development prospects of a poor country depend in part on its capacity for innovation. The productivity of its … innovators depends in turn on their access to technological knowledge. The emigration of highly skilled individuals weakens local … estimate the key co-location and diaspora parameters; the net effect of innovator emigration is to harm domestic knowledge …

analysis on individuals born in states with either high-exposure or low-exposure to emigration, as measured by historical data … skill, emigration rates appear to be highest among individuals with earnings in the top half of the wage distribution …

-migration. This paper examines the impact of the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 on agricultural development. Flooded counties …

population during colonization and examine its association with the level of economic development today. We find: (1) a strong … and uniformly positive relationship between colonial European settlement and development, (2) a stronger relationship … between colonial European settlement and economic development today than between development today and the proportion of the …

performance at the local level. We instrument emigration intensity with local temperature shocks during an inflection point of the … suggest that émigrés have a non monotonic effect on comparative development. During the 19th century, there is a significant … be partially attributed to the reduction in the share of the landed elites in high-emigration regions. We show that the …