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 …

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 …

grow as low-income countries develop. This paper tests the relationships between development and emigration from 130 …. The stage of development at home also affects the main destinations of emigration. Immigration into rich economies …The ‘mobility transition’ hypothesis - with emigration first increasing and then decreasing as a country develops …

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 …

Emigration first increases before decreasing with economic development. This bell-shaped relationship between … emigration and development was first hypothesized by the theory of the mobility transition (Zelinsky, 1971). Although several …

This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and … literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …

We provide an assessment of the state of scholarly and policy debates on migrant entrepreneurs in development. They are … often described as super-entrepreneurs who contribute to development through (i) being more entrepreneurial than natives … general development contribution of migration over and above its contribution through entrepreneurship. The implication is …

issue: the complex relationship of development and migration. Since the beginning of the 1990s several arguments have been … discussed which hint at the possibility that progress in development of less developed regions might lead to more migration …

entrepreneurship in the process of economic development. In doing so, we show that the standard policy response to migrants and migrant … the answers, (iv) Does migration matter for development? We conclude that one must avoid seeing migrants as super … development in both sending and receiving countries, not least through reducing the shares of migrants that are reluctant …

even return home at some time with better human capital. Functioning diasporas can lead to stable factors of development …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among … an effective development policy. …