Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita …

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 …

consequences of emigration from developing countries and the motivations behind the restrictions imposed by the developed countries …

Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … average emigration first rises, then falls with development. But this hypothesis has not been tested with global datasets … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita …

grow as low-income countries develop. This paper tests the relationships between development and emigration from 130 …. The stage of development at home also affects the main destinations of emigration. Immigration into rich economies …The ‘mobility transition’ hypothesis - with emigration first increasing and then decreasing as a country develops …

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 …

Comparing the emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an inverse u-shape emerges … supporting economic development in poor origin countries might increase migration. In this paper we systematically test whether … association between income and emigration. This result is independent of the level of income a country starts out at and thus …

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. …

issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …