The link between economic growth and emigration from developing countries : does migrants’ skill composition matter?

dc.contributor.authorLANATI, Mauro
dc.contributor.authorTHIELE, Rainer
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-09T13:31:36Z
dc.date.available2021-12-09T13:31:36Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractTackling the root causes of migration from developing countries through development cooperation has been suggested as an essential part of the policy mix in OECD migrant destinations, even though the evidence on whether economic development leads to more or less people emigrating is so far inconclusive. Employing various panel-data approaches, we investigate the relationship between income per capita and emigration to OECD countries separately for three different skill groups – low-skilled, medium-skilled and high-skilled emigrants. Our findings reveal a universal negative association between income per capita and emigration for all three skill groups and across specifications. This implies that policy makers should not be too concerned about potential trade-offs between (successful) development cooperation and immigration management at least in the short to medium run that our analysis covers. At the same time, the scope for using development cooperation as a migration policy instrument is limited due to the modest size of the estimated income effect.en
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dc.identifier.issn1028-3625
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/73310
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dc.publisherEuropean University Instituteen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesEUI RSCen
dc.relation.ispartofseries2021/91en
dc.relation.ispartofseriesMigration Policy Centreen
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.rights.licenseAttribution 4.0 International*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/*
dc.subjectMigrationen
dc.subjectEconomic developmenten
dc.subjectMigrants’ skill compositionen
dc.titleThe link between economic growth and emigration from developing countries : does migrants’ skill composition matter?en
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