The ‘mobility transition’ hypothesis - with emigration first increasing and then decreasing as a country develops … grow as low-income countries develop. This paper tests the relationships between development and emigration from 130 … emigration from low to middle-income countries declines as income increases, education improves or population growth slows down …

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous … variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull … factors in destination countries, and find that larger emigration rates reduced firm creation and innovative start-ups. We …

Emigration of young, motivated individuals may deprive countries-of-origin of entrepreneurs. We isolate exogenous … variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull … factors in destination countries, and find that larger emigration rates reduced firm creation and innovative start-ups. We …

Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita … than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which …

This paper studies the determinants of youth emigration decisions, which is considered to be one of the main causes of …