While measured remittances by migrant workers have soared in recent years, macroeconomic studies have difficulty … offer evidence that a large majority of the recent rise in measured remittances may be illusory—arising from changes in … remittances is rising migration, which has an opportunity cost to economic product at the origin. Net of that cost, there is …

This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an … that, at origin, increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation. …

The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those … recent data suggest something quite different: that over the course of a “mobility transition”, emigration generally rises … level, like Algeria or El Salvador. Only thereafter, as countries become even richer, do emigration rates typically fall …

Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms … Pigovian regulations on skilled emigration are inefficient and non-Pigovian regulations are inequitable and unethical. It …

The emigration of highly skilled workers can in theory lower social welfare in the migrant-sending country. If such … workers produce a good whose consumption conveys a positive externality—such as nurses and doctors in a very poor country …—the loss can be greater, and welfare can even decline globally. Policies to impede emigration thus have the potential to raise …

emigration. Those barriers, according to economists’ best estimates to date, cost the world economy much more than all remaining … destination countries. I ask why this is the case and sketch a four-point research agenda on the effects of emigration. Barriers … to emigration deserve a research priority that is commensurate with their likely colossal economic effects. …

, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances …

Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate … developing countries for thousands of workers with the objective of providing them with opportunities to find employment at home …

labor supply. The first natural experiment uses a legal requirement for farmers to demand native workers as perfect … substitutes for foreign workers; this describes the level of native labor supply. The second natural experiment uses the spike in … US unemployment during the 2007–8 economic crisis; this describes the local slope of native labor supply. The level and …