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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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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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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))...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805956
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"Sex in marriage is a divine gift": For whom ? Evidence from the Manila contraceptive ban
Dumas, Christelle; Lefranc, Arnaud - HAL - 2013
We analyze the tradeoff between child quantity and quality in developing countries by estimating the effect of family size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in the late 1990s, the mayor of Manila enacted a municipal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899533
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Strategic Interactions in Environmental Regulation Enforcement: Evidence from Chinese Provinces
Renard, Mary-Françoise; Xiong, Hang - HAL - 2012
towards China's decentralization of environment policy implementation as well as its fiscal arrangements. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651572
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Determinants of FDI into China and Vietnam: A comparative study
Pham, Thi-Hong-Hanh - HAL - 2012
Since the inception of economic reforms, China in 1978 and Vietnam in 1986, both countries have become successful … between China and Vietnam?" through a comparative study of the FDI determinants. In other words, this paper revisits the … determinants of FDI into China and Vietnam by employing an augmented gravity model and using a panel dataset containing information …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651580
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The world upside down
Fabre, Guilhem; Grumbach, Stephane - HAL - 2012
R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … perspective explaining the legacy of the past in today's choices. In the second part, we illustrate China's catching up strategy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009654257
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Return migrants : The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2011
rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323941
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Earnings Differentials between the Public and Private Sectors in China: Exploring Changes for Urban Local Residents in the 2000s
Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi; Yang, Juan - HAL - 2012
This paper analyzes the changes in public-private sector earnings differentials for local residents in urban China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323945