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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited : The Microdata Show that More Educated Migrants Remit More

Bollard, Albert - 2009

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit...

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On the Robustness of Brain Gain Estimates

Beine, Michel A. R. - 2009

Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a recent paper (Beine, Docquier and Rapoport, Economic Journal, 2008) we used the Docquier and...

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Emigration and Democracy

Docquier, Frédéric - 2011

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...

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Is Entrepreneurial Success Predictable? An Ex-Ante Analysis of the Character-Based Approach

Caliendo, Marco; Kritikos, Alexander - 2021

This paper empirically analyzes whether the character-based approach, which is based on the personality structure and the human capital of business founders, allows prediction of entrepreneurial success. A unique data set is used consisting of 414 previously unemployed persons whose personal...

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Migration and Globalization : What's in it for Developing Countries?

Rapoport, Hillel - 2016

This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge, eventually contributing to efficient...

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Managers' Risk Preferences and Firm Training Investments

Caliendo, Marco; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Pfeifer, Harald; … - 2022

We provide the first estimates of the impact of managers' risk preferences on their training allocation decisions. Our conceptual framework links managers' risk preferences to firms' training decisions through the bonuses they expect to receive. Risk-averse managers are expected to select...

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Globalization, Brain Drain and Development

Docquier, Frédéric - 2011

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 and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant...

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Does Birthplace Diversity Affect Economic Complexity? Cross-Country Evidence

Bahar, Dany - 2020

We empirically investigate the relationship between a country's economic complexity and the diversity in the birthplaces of its immigrants. Our cross-country analysis suggests that countries with higher birthplace diversity by one standard deviation are more economically complex by 0.1 to 0.18...

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Migration Policy, African Population Growth and Global Inequality

Mountford, Andrew - 2014

According to recent UN projections more than 50 percent of the growth in world population over the next half century … significant impact on the world distribution of income. In this paper we discuss the potential for migration policies to affect … more or less restrictive/selective migration policies and derive their implications for the evolution of world inequality …

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The Cultural Diffusion of the Fertility Transition : Evidence from Internal Migration in 19th Century France

Daudin, Guillaume - 2016

France experienced the demographic transition before richer and more educated countries. This paper offers a novel explanation for this puzzle that emphasizes the diffusion of culture and information through internal migration. It tests how migration affected fertility by building a decennial...

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