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Brain Drain or Brain Gain?Micro Evidence from an African Success Story
Batista, Catia; Vicente, Pedro C. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde - the sub-Saharan African country with the largest fraction of tertiary-educated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047844
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Directly Unproductive Schooling: How Country Characteristics Affect the Impact of Schooling on Growth
Rogers, Mark - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2003
The rapid rise in schooling in developing countries in recent decades has been dramatic. However, many cross-country regression analyses of the impact of schooling on economic growth find low and insignificant coefficients. This empirical `puzzle` contrasts with theoretical arguments that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047816
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Child Poverty, Demographic Transition and Gender Bias in Education in India: Household Data Analysis (1993–94 and 2004–05)
Chaudhri, D.P.; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
This paper begins by highlighting some key characteristics of the demographic transition and child education and their relation to household poverty status in India as evidenced by our analysis of Census data (1951–2001) and those from NSS surveys in 1993–94 and 2004–05. Although total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009364039
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India's Gender Bias in Child Population, Female Education and Growing Prosperity: 1951–2011 with Projections to 2026
Chaudhri, D.P.; Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
Using Census and NSS data this paper studies the evolution of Gender Bias (GB) in the age group 0–6 in India and its association with education and higher prosperity. GB is pervasive and has grown over time with higher prosperity and resultant demographic transition and enhanced education. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009318170
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The Determinants of Household Level Fertility in India
Jha, Raghbendra - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2013
Using NSS data for 1993-94 and 2004-05 this paper highlights the impact of growing incomes, social and household decisions of households, and regional and ethnic factors on patterns of household level fertility in India. These have helped determine the composition of India's young (aged 9 to 34)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010762616
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Why Doesn't Labor Flow from Poor to Rich Countries? Micro Evidence from the European Integration Experience
Batista, Catia - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
Joining the EU is a natural experiment that drastically opens the borders of richer European countries to immigration.  However, migration flows from southern Europe responded little to  free migration after 1986, despite substantial differentials in real GDP per worker.  The simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005051168
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A generic approach to investment modelling in recursive dynamic CGE models
Wickramasekara, Piyasiri - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2015
There has been increased emphasis on the linkages between international migration and development at international, regional and national levels in the past two decades. This recognition of migration as a developmental tool has generated calls for mainstreaming migration in development with some...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252693
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How Productive is Chinese Labour? The Contributions of Labour Market Reforms, Competition and Globalisation
Yueh, Linda - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
productivity of labour in China was marginally relevant in the pre-1978 period, but the picture has changed dramatically in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047962
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The Returns to Occupational Foreign Language Use: Evidence from Germany
Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010887011
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Why has China Grown So Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation
Ding, Sai; Knight, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
The paper estimates cross-province growth regressions for China over the period of economic reform.  It first addresses … General-to-Specific approach, to consider a wide range of candidate predictors of growth in China.  The first-stage model … question: why has China, as a whole, and indeed all its provinces, grown so fast? …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005047864