Knowing whether corruption leads to higher emigration rates - and among which groups - is important because most labor … emigration is from developing to developed countries. If corruption leads highly-skilled and highlyeducated workers to leave … unemployment, lowering the returns to human capital and encouraging further emigration. Corruption also shifts public spending from …

emigration increases wages in the sending country but only for non-emigrants with substitutable skills similar to those of …

unique opportunity to evaluate the labor market effects of emigration. Outmigration has contributed to higher wages for … stayers, as well as to lower unemployment in the source country. However, emigration has also exacerbated skills shortages in …