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International migration, human capital formation, and saving
Stark, Oded; Dorn, Agnieszka - 2013
In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save. -- Human capital formation ; Savings ;...
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International migration, human capital formation, and saving
Stark, Oded; Agnieszka Dorn - 2013
In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save. -- Human capital formation ; Savings ;...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009700329
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Human capital depletion, human capital formation, and migration : a blessing in a 'curse'?
Stark, Oded; Helmenstein, Christian; … - 1998
We specify conditions under which a strictly positive probability of employment in a foreign country raises the level of human capital formed by optimizing workers in the home country. While some workers migrate, "taking along" more human capital than if they had migrated without factoring in...
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A back-door brain drain
Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz - 2012
In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the average skill level in the home country. We analyze what appears to be the least threatening scenario from the point of view of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009515376
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Endogenous Selection of Comparison Groups, Human Capital Formation, and Tax Policy
Stark, Oded - 2011
This paper considers a setting in which the acquisition of human capital entails a change of location in social space that causes individuals to revise their comparison groups. Skill levels are viewed as occupational groups, and moving up the skill ladder by acquiring additional human capital,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130955
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International Migration, Human Capital Formation, and Saving
Stark, Oded - 2013
In the model of Stark et al. (1997, 1998), the possibility of employment in a developed country raises the level of human capital acquired by workers in the developing country. We show that this result holds even when workers have the option to save
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087331
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Externalities, human capital formation, and corrective migration policy
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 1999
Wenn die Förderung der Produktivität sowohl durch das individuelle Humankapital als auch durch das durchschnittliche … gesamtwirtschaftliche Humankapital bestimmt wird, sind individuelle Investitionen in die Ausbildung suboptimal. Eine streng positive … Individuen im Heimatland zurückzuführen ist, als auch das durchschnittliche Humankapital der im Heimatland verbleibenden …
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Migration and dynamics : how a leakage of human capital lubricates the engine of economic growth
Sorger, Gerhard; Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2013
This paper studies the growth dynamics of a developing country under migration. Assuming that human capital formation is subject to a strong enough, positive intertemporal externality, the prospect of migration will increase growth in the home country in the long run. If the external effect is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009766452
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Migration and dynamics : how a leakage of human capital lubricates the engine of economic growth
Sorger, Gerhard; Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2013
This paper studies the growth dynamics of a developing country under migration. Assuming that human capital formation is subject to a strong enough, positive intertemporal externality, the prospect of migration will increase growth in the home country in the long run. If the external effect is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009775568
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Socially gainful gender quotas
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - 2014
We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are regulated by gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010353585