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Smart policy toward high-skill emigrants : many proposed policies on skilled migration do little to improve skill stocks or development outcomes, but promising options exist
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
on the emigration of doctors and engineers from developing countries. Others urge incentives to encourage skilled workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433686
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Firms and the economics of skilled immigration
Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F. - 2014
Firms play a central role in the selection, sponsorship, and employment of skilled immigrants entering the United States for work through programs like the H-1B visa. This role has not been widely recognized in the literature, and the data to better understand it have only recently become...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371319
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Disadvantages of linguistic origin—Evidence from immigrant literacy scores
Isphording, Ingo E. - In: Economics Letters 123 (2014) 2, pp. 236-239
This study quantifies the disadvantage in literacy skills that arises from the linguistic distance between their mother tongue and host country language, combining individual cross-country data on literacy scores with unique information on the linguistic distance between languages.
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Effects of North–South trade on wage inequality and on human-capital accumulation
Afonso, Oscar; Gil, Pedro Mazeda - In: Economic Modelling 35 (2013) C, pp. 481-492
This paper develops an endogenous growth model with technological knowledge directed towards high- versus low-skilled labour, augmented with North–South international trade of intermediate goods and with human-capital accumulation, to analyse how trade affects wage inequality and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010719344
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Loss of human capital caused by emigration
Slepenkova, Iu. M. - In: Studies on Russian economic development 33 (2022) 4, pp. 432-439
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013460009
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Brain drain in globalization: A general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries’ perspective
Docquier, Frédéric; Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
High-skilled emigration has been found to affect developing economies via different channels. With a calibrated general … effects, those countries facing prevalent high-skilled emigration are the most candid victims to brain drain. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468643
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Testing the ‘brain gain’ hypothesis: Micro evidence from Cape Verde
Batista, Catia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro C. - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 1, pp. 32-45
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010582678
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China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
Constant, Amelie; Meng, Jingzhou; Tien, Bienvenue; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China’s notable achievements in education as well as its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002385
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The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor
Hanson, Gordon H. - In: Annual Review of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 179-208
In this paper, I selectively discuss recent empirical work on the consequences of global labor mobility. I examine how international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending and receiving countries and of migrants themselves. Were a social planner to choose the migration policies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765252
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. The authors find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that … unskilled (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled …
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