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The Impact of the Credit Crisis on Poor Developing Countries and the Role of China in Pulling and Crowding Us Out
Ziesemer, Thomas - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2010
an error correction model including China and Australia. This causes negative growth effects in poor developing countries … rates return to the baseline scenario until 2013 with overshooting for China and Australia, the level of the GDP per capita … shows permanent effects, which are positive only for China. In the poor countries, investment, remittances, savings, tax …
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International migration and local employment: analysis of self-selection and earnings in Tajikistan
Atamanov, Aziz; Berg, Marrit van den - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
This paper addresses the issue of self-selection of individuals in international labour migration, non-agricultural and agricultural employment in Tajikistan and its link to earnings from these activities. Unlike most empirical studies, we could attribute selection bias on unobservable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010712064
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What's the best place for me? Location-choice for S&E students in India
Hercog, Metka; Van de Laar, Mindel - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
This paper examines how national migration policies and country-specific factors in receiving countries attend to a potential highly-skilled migrant when one is deciding among several possible locations. While continental European countries recognize the need to attract migrants as a key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010856423
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Determinants of international mobility decision: The case-study of India
Hercog, Metka; Van de Laar, Mindel - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2013
Faced with a situation in which countries compete for international students, it becomes especially important to understand students' preferences regarding migration behaviour. This paper looks at the determinants of international mobility intentions in the specific situation of Indian students...
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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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Promoting return and circular migration of the highly skilled
Hercog, Metka; Siegel, Melissa - United Nations University-Maastricht Economic Research … - 2011
Migration of skilled workers from developing countries has increased substantially in recent years. Traditionally, such patterns raised fears on the ground of the associated 'brain drain' as human capital formation is considered to be of central importance to the development and reduction of...
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008794179
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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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