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. …

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. …

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 …

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

Does the emigration of highly-skilled workers deplete local human capital? The answer is not obvious if migration …, where political shocks have provoked one of the largest recorded exoduses of skilled workers from a developing country. Mass … emigration began unexpectedly and has occurred only in a well-defined subset of the population, creating a treatment group that …

We compare the wages of workers inside the United States to the wages of observably identical workers outside the …