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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 … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002385
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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 equilibrium framework, this paper finds that the short-run impact of brain drain on resident human capital is extremely crucial, as it does not only determine the number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468643
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Choix d’une meilleure politique d’émigration : Modélisation de stratégies et simulation du modèle
KOUNI, Mohamed - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The recent brain drain literature showed that the skilled emigration can improve the average level of schooling in developing countries. Indeed, the brain drain issue seems to be at the heart of policy priorities for the source countries. It’s in this context that our interest in this paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009004040
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Brain Drain, Brain Gain, and Economic Growth in China
Ha, Wei; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper examines the effects of both permanent and temporary emigration on human capital formation and economic growth of the source regions. To achieve this end, this paper explores the Chinese provincial panel data from 1980 to 2005. First, the fixed effects model is employed to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559037
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656177
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005497751
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Geographic, Gender and Skill Structure of International Migration
Docquier, Frédéric; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Özden, Caglar; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper presents a new bilateral database documenting international migration stocks by gender, education level, origin and destination. We build on existing databases of OECD host countries in 1990 and 2000 and expand their coverage by collecting or estimating migration to all non-OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112944
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Globalization and health worker crisis: what do wealth-effects tells us?
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Owing to lack of relevant data on health human resource migration, the empirical dimension of the health-worker crisis debate has remained void despite abundant theoretical literature. A health worker crisis is overwhelming the world. Shortages in health professionals are reaching staggering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110828
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The impact of health worker migration on development dynamics: evidence of wealth-effects from Africa
Simplice A, Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper examines three relevant hypotheses on the incidence of health worker migration on human development and economic prosperity (at macro and micro levels) in Africa. Owing to lack of relevant data on Health Human Resource(HHR) migration for the continent, the subject matter has remained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112149
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Determinants of Health Professionals’ Migration in Africa: a WHO based Assessment
Asongu, Simplice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Abstract Purpose – How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy, corruption-control, press-freedom, government effectiveness, human development, foreign-aid, physical security, trade openness and financial liberalization play-out in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114002