This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on
recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity …

What is the greatest single class of distortions in the global economy? One contender for this
title is the tightly binding constraints on emigration from poor countries. Vast numbers of …

Migration is a widely used adaptation strategy to climate change impacts. Yet resource
constraints caused by such impacts may limit the ability to migrate, thereby leading to …

Although it is commonly believed that the volume, diversity, geographical scope, and overall
complexity of international migration have increased as part of globalization processes, this …

We propose an index of population diversity based on people's birthplaces and decompose
it into a size (share of immigrants) and a variety (diversity of immigrants) component. We …

This article makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international
migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering …

The attentive observer of globalization is at least intuitively aware of the centrality of the
issue of migration. Migration plays a major role in the complex (and unclear) process of …

This article elaborates a conceptual framework for assessing the character and effectiveness
of immigration policies. It argues that, to a considerable extent, the public and academic …

We examine natural disasters and long‐run climatic factors as potential determinants of
international migration, implementing a panel dataset of bilateral migration flows from 1960 …

While there is considerable interest in understanding the climate–migration relationship,
particularly in the context of concerns about global climatic change, little is known about its …