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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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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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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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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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This paper examines how left-behind children influence return migration in China. We first present a simple model that …, China) in fall 2008. We first use a discrete-time proportional hazard model to estimate the determinants of migration …
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The literature shows that temporary international migrants have a high propensity to opt for an entrepreneurial activity upon return, but the prospects of survival of these activities have not been explored. We address this research question using longitudinal Egyptian data. We find that...
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In this paper, we study the smoking behavior of students aged from 18 to 25 using four cross-section data sets … students, only wages earned and transfers received from parents increase smoking participation. However, sensitivity to income … remains weak since a rise of 1% in income of either the students or their parents leads to an increase in smoking prevalence …
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In this paper, we develop a multicommunity model where public mixed finance and private schools coexist. Students are …
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The purpose of this article is to analyse the impact of higher education on students' and young managers' perception of … companies and corporate social responsibility (CSR). The research is based on an electronic questionnaire for students and …
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towards China's decentralization of environment policy implementation as well as its fiscal arrangements. …
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