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 …

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