This paper documents a stylized fact: the Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and …, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. The … fundamentals driving these emigration life cycles to the United States since 1970 – income and education gaps between the US and …

The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those … suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic … development until countries reach upper-middle income, and only thereafter falls. This note quantifies the shape of the mobility …

As often argued, a negative perception of immigration, or even emigration, prevails public opinions and governments in … adequate policies could make migration a genuine instrument for economic and social development. Therefore, the conditions … of its multiple migration roles as a country of emigration, immigration and transit, over time; secondly because, this …

As often argued, a negative perception of immigration, or even emigration, prevails public opinions and governments in … adequate policies could make migration a genuine instrument for economic and social development. Therefore, the conditions … of its multiple migration roles as a country of emigration, immigration and transit, over time; secondly because, this …

consequences of emigration from developing countries and the motivations behind the restrictions imposed by the developed countries …

further test the sensitivity of these results to emigration bias—a potentially important, though generally ignored problem in … emigration on the two convergence results. We then introduce a technique that could be generally applied as an empirical test for … emigration bias in immigrant studies. Both the theoretical and empirical analyses suggest that immigrant earnings convergence by …

UK and Ireland. I use this emigration wave to show that emigration significantly changed the wage distribution in the … calibration of a structural model of labor demand, I find that over the period of five years emigration increased the wages of … significant effect of emigration on the wage distribution between high-skilled and low-skilled workers. …

. This paper addresses the question whether such an emigration wave changes the wage distribution in the source country. In a … theoretical model of a labor market I show that some groups of stayers gain, while others lose from emigration. This outcome …. Using microdata from Lithuania, I simulate the post-2004 emigration wave based on the theoretical model and calculate the …

life satisfaction and emigration intentions: it is the most and the least life-satisfied people who are the most likely to … express intentions to emigrate. This result is found in countries with different levels of economic development and …

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. …