This paper studies the effect of emigration on gender norms in countries of migrants' origin. We use an instrumental … variable strategy that allows us to estimate a causal effect of emigration on gender inequality. Our findings suggest that … emigration to countries with low (high) levels of gender inequality is associated with promotion of more (less) progressive …

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 …

household survey and employing an empirical method within the New Economics of Labor Migration theory framework, the results … considered as environmental factors that could induce migration from Tajikistan. Using two waves of a nationally representative … abroad. The findings show that a rise in air temperature from its long-term average reduces emigration, while changes in …

How does mobile internet access affect the desire to emigrate and migration plans? To answer this question, we combine … from Spain, we also document that 3G rollout increased actual migration flows. …

Migration is historically a social phenomenon that not only has a significant effect on politics, economics, and social … aspects but also presents challenges to the security of states and alters population composition in countries. Labor migration … is one of the most dynamic in Europe. The current study aims at examining the relations and the reasons for emigration to …

In this first empirical analysis of how sanctions affect international migration, we apply two estimation strategies, a …, reflecting migration flows from 157 origin countries to 32 (largely OECD) destination countries between 1961 and 2018. The data … supports that UN and joint EU-US sanctions increase emigration from target countries by around 20 percent. Our event study …

We analyze perceptions of international applicability of one's education and migration aspirations and intentions among … education least internationally applicable. Perceived international applicability strongly predicts migration aspirations and …

In this first empirical analysis of how sanctions affect international migration, we apply two estimation strategies, a …, reflecting migration flows from 157 origin countries to 32 (largely OECD) destination countries between 1961 and 2018. The data … supports that UN and joint EU-US sanctions increase emigration from target countries by around 20 percent. Our event study …