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 …

age is estimated on intended emigration rather than on observed outcomes of migration, using individual measures of … intended emigration drawn from a large-scale survey conducted by Gallup. I find evidence that age has a monotonic negative … effect on desired emigration for the working-age population. The estimations point to a very robust effect, suggesting that …

Whether and to what extent corruption drives emigration has received growing attention in the literature in recent … data of more than 280,000 respondents across 67 countries from 2010 to 2014. We use two different measures of emigration … find robust support for the hypothesis that corruption increases emigration intentions across countries. The effect …

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 study provides novel evidence on the effects of emigration on pro-environmental behaviour back home. Focusing on …-environmental action and the local-level intensity of a major guestworker emigration wave that occurred four decades earlier. I find that … more intense local-level emigration is associated with a lower likelihood of pro-environmental action; the instrumental …