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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423766
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 …
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As often argued, a negative perception of immigration, or even emigration, prevails public opinions and governments in … adequate policies could make migration a genuine instrument for economic and social development. Therefore, the conditions … of its multiple migration roles as a country of emigration, immigration and transit, over time; secondly because, this …
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consequences of emigration from developing countries and the motivations behind the restrictions imposed by the developed countries …
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As often argued, a negative perception of immigration, or even emigration, prevails public opinions and governments in … adequate policies could make migration a genuine instrument for economic and social development. Therefore, the conditions … of its multiple migration roles as a country of emigration, immigration and transit, over time; secondly because, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506990
This paper presents occupation-specific data on south-north migration around the year 2000 using employment data for developing sending and OECD receiving countries from ILO and OECD. These data reveal that the incidence of south-north migration was highest among professionals, one of the two...
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emigration (as measured by the natives' average emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development …International migration is an important determinant of institutions, not considered so far in the development …
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Purpose Human capital flight from developing countries to developed nations has been rising and giving concerns to governments and scholars alike. This paper aims to explore the impact migration from Nigeria has on economic output growth by focusing on the migration rate, remittances, population...
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