The ‘mobility transition’ hypothesis - with emigration first increasing and then decreasing as a country develops … grow as low-income countries develop. This paper tests the relationships between development and emigration from 130 … emigration from low to middle-income countries declines as income increases, education improves or population growth slows down …

Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita … than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which …

Comparing the emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an inverse u-shape emerges … association between income and emigration. This result is independent of the level of income a country starts out at and thus …