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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...
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Selective immigration policies, human capital accumulation and migration duration in infinite horizon
Magris, Francesco; Russo, Giuseppe - HAL - 2005
An increasing literature encourages the use of selective immigration policies as a tool to promote incentives to education. It is argued that, since not everybody is allowed to migrate, under these policies a poor country may well turn out with more human capital than in autarchy. The implicit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738720
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The emergence of China : opportunities and challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean
Devlin, Robert (ed.); Estevadeordal, Antoni (ed.);  … - Inter-American Development Bank; David Rockefeller … - 2006
"The Emergence of China: Opportunities and Challenges for Latin America and the Caribbean provides a comprehensive … overview of China's economic policy and performance over recent decades and contrasts them with the Latin American experience …. What are the underlying factors behind China's competitive edge? What are the strategic implications of China's rise for …
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Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters
Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...
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Brain drain, R&D-cost differentials and the innovation gap
Mariani, Fabio - HAL - 2008
This paper aims at explaining why countries with comparable levels of education still experience notable differences in terms of R&D and innovation. High-skilled migration, ultimately linked to differences in R&D costs, might be responsible for the persistence of such a gap. In fact, in a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738476
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Why Migrants' Remittances Reduce Income Inequality in some Countries and not in Others?
Ebeke, Christian; Goff, Maëlan Le - HAL - 2011
According to the literature, the effect of remittances on income inequality in origin countries of migrants is not clear, whatever empirical approach is used. Aiming at clearing up this ambiguity, some authors took into account the historical, social or economic context of the home countries...
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La fuite des cerveaux incite-t-elle la scolarisation ?
Boussichas, Matthieu - HAL - 2011
L'émigration de travailleurs issus des pays en développement vers ceux dits développés est relativement plus qualifiée que la moyenne mondiale des travailleurs. Ceci engendre pour certains de ces PED une perte directe en capital humain non-négligeable. Une vision "optimiste" (Stark(1997))...
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Polarization, growth and social policy in the case of Israel, 1997 - 2008
García-Fernándeza, Rosa María; Gottlieb, Daniel; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012
In this paper we apply two statistical models to the measurement of polarization to Israeli income data over the past decade in order to empirically detect income classes as sub-populations of incomes concentrated around an optimal number of poles. The statistical models compared are a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010983174
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Alone but Better Off? Adult Child Migration and Health of Elderly Parents in Moldova
Böhme, Marcus; Persian, Ruth; Stoehr, Tobias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013
Increasing labor migration and simultaneous aging of societies are two important demographic developments many poor countries face. Elderly people who are left behind may experience a decrease in welfare when their children migrate. This paper investigates the e ect of migration on various...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010886996
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Migration Experience, Aspirations and the Brain Drain - Theory and Empirical Evidence
Böhme, Marcus H.; Glaser, Toni - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
We develop a theoretical model of human skill formation and emigration. Additionally to existing brain drain models, we partly endogenize the heterogeneity of the individuals, by introducing aspirations. Emigration of an individual will result in a migration experience, which increases the...
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