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Brain drain in developing countries
Frederic, DOCQUIER; Olivier, LOHEST; Abdeslam, MARFOUK - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2007
multiplicative components, the degree of openess of sending countries (as measured by their average emigration rate) and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984686
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Brain drain in globalization A general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries’ perspective
MARCHIORI, Luca; SHEN, I-Ling; DOCQUIER, Frederic - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009
feedback effects, those countries with high skilled emigration rates are the most candid victims to brain drain since they are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008063
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A gendered assessment of the brain drain
Frederic, DOCQUIER; B. Lindsay, LOWELL; Abdeslam, MARFOUK - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2007
drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000 …
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A Panel Data Analysis of the Brain Gain
Michel, BEINE; Cecily, DEFOORT; Frédéric, DOCQUIER - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2007
This paper casts the Belgian Great Depression of the 1930s within a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) framework. Results show that a total factor productivity shock within a standard real business cycle model is unsatisfactory. Introducing war expectations in the baseline model...
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Global competition for attracting talents and the world economy
DOCQUIER, Frédéric; MACHADO, Joël - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014
This paper studies the effect of liberalizing the international mobility of college-educated workers on the world economy. First, we combine data on effective and desired migration to identify the net pool of foreign talents (NPFT) of selected high-income countries. So far, the EU15 has poorly...
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The Wage Effects of Immigration and Emigration
DOCQUIER, Frederic; OZDEN, Çaglar; PERI, Giovanni - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010
average wages and a worsening of their wage inequality because of emigration. Whereas, immigration had nearly equal but … average wage effect on native workers. These concerns would be more properly focused on the wage effect of emigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008838086
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Documenting the brain drain of « la creme de la creme »: Three case-studies on international migration at the upper tail of the education distribution
DOCQUIER, Frederic; RAPOPORT, Hillel - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009
Most of the recent literature on the effects of the brain drain on source countries consists of theoretical papers and cross-country empirical studies. In this paper we complement the literature through three case studies on very different regional and professional contexts: the African medical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505475
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Brain Drain, R&D-Cost Differentials and the Innovation Gap
MARIANI, Fabio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 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 persitence of such a gap. In fact, in a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505597
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Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries : winners and losers
Michel, BEINE; Frédéric, DOCQUIER; Hillel, RAPOPORT - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2006
literature suggests that emigration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and foster investment in education … at home. This paper takes advantage of a new dataset on emigration rates by education level (Docquier and Marfouk, 2006 … countries combining relatively low levels of human capital and low skilled emigration rates are likely to experience a net gain …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984699
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The Welfare Impact of Global Migration in the OECD Countries
AUBRY, Amandine; BURZYŃSKI, Michal - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
effect is mainly due to the intra-OECD emigration. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011124135