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economy. First, we combine data on effective and desired migration to identify the net pool of foreign talents (NPFT) of … benefit less than the US. In addition, liberalizing high-skilled migration decreases income per worker by 2.5 percent in …
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This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … education decisions. We identify bilateral migration costs and their legal component for each pair of countries and two classes …
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This paper analyses the impact of networks on the structure of international migration flows to OECD countries. In … migrant. Therefore, unlike the preceding literature on macro determinants of international migration, we can identify the …
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This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. We … relatively higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated with the gender gap …
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Relying on an original data set on international migration by educational attainment for 1990 and 2000, we analyze the …, we put forward the determinants of the components and explain cross-country differences in skilled migration …
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This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries … original and detailed data on migration. Our results provide evidence of a strong transfer of fertility norms from migrants to …
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remittance and migration data and proxy measures for the restrictiveness and selectivity of immigration policies at destination …
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the net benefits of migration by reducing assimilation costs (’self-selection channel’) and by lowering legal entry … elasticity of migration flows to network size is around one. Second, only a quarter of this elasticity is accounted for by the …
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This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual heterogeneity. We also take into account that there...
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Using longitudinal data from the Swiss Household Panel, this analysis suggests that the cross-sectional estimates of the returns to educational mismatch are significantly biased when unobserved heterogeneity is omitted in the wage equation. The results of the standard fixed effects model indeed...
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