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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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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...

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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...

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The Geography of Development: Evaluating Migration Restrictions and Coastal Flooding

Desmet, Klaus; Nagy, David Krisztián; Rossi-Hansberg, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. We...

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Vanishing Third World Emigrants?

Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

This paper documents a stylized fact not well appreciated in the literature. The Third World has been undergoing an emigration life cycle since the 1960s, and, except for Africa, emigration rates have been level or even declining since a peak in the late 1980s the early 1990s. The current...

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The Economics of Temporary Migrations

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants’ economic behavior, generating possible consequences for...

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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 … migrants to current levels of local development – proxied by GDP per capita at county level in 2005 – while controlling for a … economic development of the county today. The results of the econometric analysis including instrumental variables underline …

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Migration Theory and Evidence: An Assessment

Ghatak, Subrata; Levine, Paul L - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

This paper presents a critical survey of theories of migration, their welfare and policy implications and their empirical relevance. We also develop some extensions to the theory beginning with a general encompassing model of migration which treats the Harris and Todaro (HT) model as a special...

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Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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