Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with … on the emigration of doctors and engineers from developing countries. Others urge incentives to encourage skilled workers … compassionate and political sentiments without clear evidence that the regulations achieve the desired development goals and avoid …

This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between … trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local … wage inequality as influenced by asymmetric emigration patterns. …

This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and … literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …

significant effect on development and economic growth in 28 member states. However, the findings also indicate that some countries … migration has indeed contributed to economic development in all member states over the period analysed, it has not necessarily …

smallest countries, especially in the Caribbean and in Africa, face significant ‘emigration rates’ of their elites. …

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 …

since 2000/01. It also presents evidence on overall emigration rates and emigration rates of the highly educated at the …