The emigration of highly skilled workers can in theory lower social welfare in the migrant-sending country. If such … - the loss can be greater, and welfare can even decline globally. Policies to impede emigration thus have the potential to … raise sending-country and global welfare. This study uses a new database of health worker emigration from Africa to test …

simple model, which highlights the theoretical case for a substitution effect between voicing and emigration. We subsequently … numbers of press reports, is associated with lower emigration rates. This substitution effect holds for both internal and …

simple model, which highlights the theoretical case for a substitution effect between voicing and emigration. We subsequently … numbers of press reports, is associated with lower emigration rates. This substitution effect holds for both internal and …

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

since 2000/01. It also presents evidence on overall emigration rates and emigration rates of the highly educated at the …

supports that UN and joint EU-US sanctions increase emigration from target countries by around 20 percent. Our event study … results for joint EU-US sanctions imply a gradual increase in emigration over the course of a sanction episode. The impact of … countries with fewer political rights and civil liberties, where emigration substitutes for the costly voicing of dissent …