#Emigration

Waël Atallah

wael_atallah

1/Thread: Lebanese emigration 1860-1929Today Lebanon is faced with the threat of massive emigration. This is very reminiscent of the second wave of emigration from Mount Lebanon post WW1. Emigration driven

Michael Clemens

m_clem

As people in poor countries get richer, they have a *greater* tendency to emigrate. I just released two major studies, one joint with @MariapiaMendola, exploring this remarkable phenomenon.Long-read summary here:

Dr Michaela Benson

Michaelacbenson

Did you know that the numbers of British citizens emigrating to the EU27 has increased since the #Brexit referendum? Here's me writing about what this tells us about #emigration 1/https://ukandeu.ac.uk/emigration-in-brexit-times-why-are

Michael Clemens

m_clem

Well I warned you I would tweet a lot this week about emigration and development! This is the last thread. ☞ Specialists, this is for you.I'll address some questions that

Michael Clemens

m_clem

Before this tweetstorm passes, a final cloudburst ⭢If you follow the research on how emigration rises with development, you might be asking: Wait, didn't I just see a paper finding

Julia Rone

JuliRone

With @ManesWeissk & @MarianaSeMendes we wrote earlier on CEE workers flying to work in the West during COVID-19Georgiev discusses the opposite trend: 550,000(!) Bulgarians traveled back to Bulgaria in March-May

Pete Sweeney

petesweeneypro

Hong Kong's population contracted by 50k residents in 2020, biggest shrink since WW2. Lam govt believes mainland arrivals will offset aging and emigration, and is pushing youth to seek work

Deen Freelon

dfreelon

Stand back everyone, I'm gonna present some exploratory data analysis. Responses welcome.You may have seen the recent rash of carbon-copy tweets claiming a Biden-related divorce and emigration. (examples here: https://twitter.com/Alison

Michael Clemens

m_clem

Tweetstorm continues! So *why is it* that in lower-income countries, richer people emigrate more? What does that mean about the effects of *immigration*?@MariapiaMendola and I went all-out to find

Manuel L. Quezon III

mlq3

The Old Middle Class was the creation of the American era and the Commonwealth and Third Republic; its demise began under Marcos and it voted with its feet in 80s-90s;

Soner Cagaptay

SonerCagaptay

Turkish towns that have grown most disproportionately since the collapse of the Ottoman Empire:1. Kirikkale2. Batman3. Karabuk(Hardly villages in 1923, these 3 boomed due to state-led industrialization drive)4. Urfa (due

Feluda ফেলুদা

DetectiveBilla

Thank you all for your valuable insights!Mixing religion & state has harmful effects. It is a 2-way street. But the conception of Machiavellain secularism is essentially in conflict with the

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

mushfiq_econ

Educated, skilled workers are more likely to emigrate away from polluted cities. This affects aggregate productivity and welfare, and also explains ~14% of an enduring macro-development puzzle: Why do people

martinmcmahon

williamhboney1

I had just turned 19 and finished a 1 year secretarial course. A job was more important than anything else, any job. I sent out 300 CVs and got no

Claire

ClaireRedacted

German Jewish organization pre WWII.How two different Jewish organizations, aiming to keep German Jews in Germany as Germans, not only failed, but where detrimental to Jewish survival.Thread. By the end

Ritesh Banglani

banglani

It's clear that the poor and the middle class migrate from India in search of a better life. But I have always wondered why the rich are so keen to

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