Does development aid curb migration? Researchers Mauro Lanati and Rainer Thiele show how aid can deter would-be migrants when it goes to public services, but argue that it would take an unrealistic increase in aid to significantly lower emigration...

The link between aid flows and migration is still relatively unexplored empirically. Yet, there appears to be some consensus in the literature that the effect of foreign aid on migration flows is positive, suggesting that the additional income...

How does economic development in poor countries affect international migration? An apparently well-established ‘stylized fact’ suggests that the relationship between economic development and emigration follows an inverted U-shape pattern

The research project first investigates the channels through which foreign aid affects the decision to migrate in the countries of origin. Secondly, it also addresses how the pattern of official development assistance (ODA) allocation is changing in...

Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country cultural differences implicitly assume that cultural proximity between two countries is constant over time and symmetric, which is...

Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country cultural differences.

The paper examines the effect of the import of cultural goods as defined by UNESCO (2009): cultural heritage, performance, visual arts, books, audio-visual material and design on emigration decisions.

This paper uses geographically disaggregated data to investigate the role of foreign aid as a pull factor for internal migration in Malawi over the period 1998-2008.

Abstract Debates on the extent to which developing countries suffer from a brain drain often focus on the emigration of locally scarce health personnel.

The EU faces major challenges in asylum and migration policy: reorganize the EU asylum system, secure the external border, curb irregular immigration through cooperation with African governments, and support developing countries that host large...