We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish … between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a … country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for knowledge goods exhibit a kind of 'home bias'. In contrast to existing …

of emigration as well as immigration. We focus on Europe and compare the outcomes for large Western European countries … inequality because of emigration. Whereas, contrary to the popular belief, immigration had nearly equal but opposite effects … the wage effect of emigration, instead …

In this paper, we examine net emigration from Mexico over the period 1960 to 2000. The data are consistent with labor …-supply shocks having made a substantial contribution to Mexican emigration, accounting for two fifths of Mexican labor flows to the … U.S. over the last two decades of the 20th century. Net emigration rates by Mexican state birth-year cohort display a …

occurred when overseas mass emigration from southern Italy was at its peak and international borders were open, making … emigration a readily available option for relief. We use this event to study the effects of natural disasters on international … migration. We find that there was no large positive impact on emigration on average. There were, however, heterogeneous …

first on Fisher's influences in monetary theory (the quantity theory of money, the Fisher effect, Gibson's Paradox, the … monetary theory of business cycles, and the Phillips Curve, and empirics, e.g. distributed lags.). Then we discuss Fisher and …

abandonment of economic theory in applied work in the “experimentalist paradigm.” We document the changes implied by the changing …-55, 1974-75 and 2007-08. We also show that, despite the partial abandonment of theory by applied microeconomists, the labor … market for economists still pays a wage premium to theorists …