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 …

Two of the main forces driving European emigration in the late nineteenth century were real wage gaps between sending … there is a demographic speed up in the making. Our estimates suggest that the pressure on emigration out of Africa will …

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 …

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 …

economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased …

’s development policy. Without appropriate policy responses, BC fade the developing country growth prospects away. In order to …

economic development. While the rates and levels of officially recorded remittances to developing countries has increased …