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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...
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The international mobility of talent : types, causes and development impact
Solimano, Andrés (ed.) - 2008
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Is the brain drain an unmitigated blessing?
Faini, Riccardo (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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UNU-WIDER special issue: The rise of China and India : growth, trade, investment and institutional developments
Wan, Guanghua (contributor);  … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2008
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The rise of China and India : impacts, prospects and implications
Santos-Paulino, Amelia U. (contributor);  … - 2010
The rise of China and India is rapidly reshaping the world economy, with far-reaching implications for every national … Engines of Global Growth', this volume explores the foundations of China and India's development experiences and strategies … trade and investment inflows, and comparatively analyses the prospects, driving forces and implications of the rise of China …
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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...
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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...
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