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other skill type, say "managers," do not confer such an externality. We find that a uniform entry fee encourages self …-selection such that the migrants are only or mostly highly skilled managers. The (near) absence of migrant scientists has a negative … effect on the productivity of the country's workforce. Under a quota: the migrants are (a) only averagely skilled managers if …
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other skill type, say "managers," do not confer such an externality. We find that a uniform entry fee encourages self …-selection such that the migrants are only or mostly highly skilled managers. The (near) absence of migrant scientists has a negative … effect on the productivity of the country’s workforce. Under a quota: the migrants are (a) only averagely skilled managers if …
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A country that experiences a shortage of workers with particular skills naturally considers two responses: import skills or produce them. Skill import may result in large-scale migration, which will not be to the liking of the natives. Skill production will require financial incentives, which...
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Drawing on the literature of occupational status and social distance, a theory is developed of labor migration that is … Theorie zur Migration von Arbeitskraft, die den Wunsch des Einzelnen mit einbezieht, eine Abwertung des sozialen Status zu …
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This paper develops a model of voluntary migration into degrading work. The essence of the model is a tension between two "bads" that which arises from being relatively deprived at home, and that which arises from engaging in humiliating work away from home. Balancing between these two "bads"...
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