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Brain drain and development traps
Bénassy, Jean-Pascal; Brezis, Elise S. - In: Journal of Development Economics 102 (2013) C, pp. 15-22
endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 5, pp. 817-828
-selective. These predictions are then tested empirically using bilateral remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the …
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Soaring Minds: The Flight of Israel’s Economists
Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country’s universities - or not to return...
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Brain Drained: A Tale of Two Countries
Ben-David, Dan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
This paper provides a comparative examination of how public universities in two countries, the United States and Israel, have evolved over the past few decades - and how differences between the two have culminated in a rate of academic brain drain from the latter to the former that is...
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When migrants rule: the legacy of mass migration on economic development in the US
Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; von Berlepsch, Viola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
migration waves of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has left a legacy on the economic development of the counties where … look at the geography of migration across US counties in the 48 continental states. We then link this settlement pattern of … number of factors which may have influenced both the location of migrants at the time of migration, as well as for the …
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Skilled migration and the transfer of institutional norms
Beine, Michel; Sekkat, Khalid - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19
We examine two impacts of international emigration on the evolution of the institutions in the origin countries. The first impact concerns the influence of emigration per se (i.e. people who left the country can voice more or less from abroad). The second impact relates to the transfer of the...
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The brain drain from developing countries : the brain drain produces many more losers than winners in developing countries
Docquier, Frédéric - 2014
The proportion of foreign-born people in rich countries has tripled since 1960, and the emigration of high-skilled people from poor countries has accelerated. Many countries intensify their efforts to attract and retain foreign students, which increases the risk of brain drain in the sending...
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How to attract foreign students : international student mobility can be good for migrating students, their home country, the host country, and those remaining at home
Chevalier, Arnaud - 2014
highly qualified workers - are overblown and that student migration can positively affect economic growth in both sending and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416339
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Top Talent, Elite Colleges, and Migration : Evidence from the Indian Institutes of Technology
Choudhury, Prithwiraj; Ganguli, Ina; Gaulé, Patrick - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study migration in the right tail of the talent distribution using a novel dataset of Indian high school students … Technology (IIT). We find a high incidence of migration after students complete college: among the top 1,000 scorers on the exam …, for which we study migration after one university suddenly gained the IIT designation; and alumni networks, using …
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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
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 that would maximize global welfare, she would need to know, among other …
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