proves that financial intermediation is a viable device to fight poverty, and an excellent vehicle for community development.  …

and benefits. The Caribbean countries have lost 10–40 percent of their labor force due to emigration to OECD member … percent of their labor force with more than 12 years of completed schooling—among the highest emigration rates in the world …

labor emigration from developing countries. We show that for given technologies, labor market integration necessarily lowers … GDP per capita in a poor source country of emigration, because it distorts the education decision of individuals. As … pointed out by our analysis, a negative source country effect also materializes if all agents face identical emigration …

Purpose This paper aims to examine whether emigration of high-skilled labor creates a positive effect in the home …-skilled emigration contributes to the prevalence of multi-country joint patents in a country. The analysis is conducted both in aggregate … as a control variable is robustly considered. Findings Results suggest that emigration of high-skilled labor positively …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to review the emigration situation after the socialist regime and to reveal the … main reasons for emigration in present-day Lithuania answering the question why “the West is still the best” remains … important to modern Lithuania. Design/methodology/approach Statistical analysis of emigration during 1980-2015 in Lithuania was …

Purpose – This study aims to bring some additional insight into the issue of emigration by establishing a relationship … between emigration and psychic return of citizens to their human capital investment in the country. Design … the study of emigration. Findings – The article provides evidence for the fact that psychic return to human capital …

“blood” period of forced development and autocratic rule, the information system and the system of property rights were …