This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries …. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm … to 2014 as a source of exogenous variation in the emigration rates from new EU member states. We argue that a potential …

or decline due to a brain drain. Low skilled emigration leads to reversed results, while the overall impact on human … found that increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation, while low skilled … emigration induces higher population growth and a lower level of education. -- Migration ; Human capital ; Fertility …

offers new hypotheses regarding the skill composition of emigration during the mobility transition. Skill … high-to-low skill emigration ratio. As SBTC eventually diffuses to the source economy, it also raises the relative return … to high skill investment there, and causes a decline in the high-to-low skill emigration ratio. Empirical evidence using …

This paper examines the effects of both permanent and temporary emigration on human capital formation and economic …. First, the fixed effects model is employed to estimate the effect of emigration on school enrollment rates in the source … emigration ratio) is conducive to the improvement of both middle and high schools enrollments. In contrast, the magnitude of …

emigration (as measured by the natives' average emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development …

emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled … (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled …

We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish … between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a … country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for knowledge goods exhibit a kind of "home bias." In contrast to existing …

This paper examines the effects of emigration on human capital accumulation at origin throughout a century. I focus on … the mass emigration from Galicia (Spain) to Latin America (1900-1930), one of the largest emigration episodes at the time … sources and exploit variation in pioneering emigration and a pull factor for identification. I find that while emigration …