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Can Foreign Health Assistance Reduce the Medical Brain Drain?
MOULLAN, Yasser - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009
This paper analyses the impact of foreign health aid on the emigration rates of physicians. We use a panel database to investigate the emigration of physicians from 192 source countries to 17 destination countries between 1995 and 2004. First, we investigate the direct impact of health...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505485
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ChinAfrica : How can the Sino-African cooperation be beneficial for Africa ?
Luca, MARCHIORI - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2007
improvement in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) is possible. Three channels may lead to a catching-up for Africa with China : a reduction … in Africa’s investment risk, an increase in its total factor productivity (TFP) and an improvement of its worker skills … Sub-Saharan Africa and China. Three scenarios are considered in which, by 2100, Africa will have reduced simultaneously …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984823
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On the Golden Rule of capital accumulation under endogenous longevity
David, DE LA CROIX - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2008
This note derives the Golden Rule of capital accumulation in a Chakraborty-type economy, i.e. a two-period OLG economy where longevity is endogenous. It is shown that the capital per worker maximizing steady-state consumption per head is inferior to the Golden Rule capital level prevailing under...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984731
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Another View of the J-Curve
Olivier, CARDI - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005
We use a two-good dynamic optimizing small open economy model to provide a new explanation of the J-Curve phenomenon in terms of habit persistence in consumption and sluggishness in capital adjustment. The results differ markedly depending on the permanence or temporary nature of the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984792
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Do Brain Drain and Poverty Result from Coordination Failures?
CROIX, David DE LA; DOCQUIER, Frederic - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010
We explore the complementarities between high-skill emigration and poverty in developing countries. We build a model endogenizing human-capital accumulation, high-skill migration and productivity. Two countries sharing the same characteristics may end up either in a “low poverty/low brain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008505496
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Did the market-clearing postulate pre-exist new classical economics ? The case of Marshallian theory
Michel, DE VROEY - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005
Have new classicists invented market clearing or have they rehabilited it ? This is the question addressed in the present paper. It is generally agreed that market clearing underpins Walrasian theory, so my exploration is limited to the question of whether this is also true for Marshallian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004984705
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From one to many islands : the emergence of search and matching models
BATYRA, Anna; VROEY, Michel DE - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2009
The notion of frictional unemployment first arose in the writings of Beveridge, Pigou and Hicks. Why did it fail at the time to grow into a fully fledged theory ? Our answer is simple. This failure was due to the fact these economists were unwilling and/or unable to go beyond the then-prevailing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005008066
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Geographical Economics : A Historical Perspective
THISSE, Jacques-François - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011
This paper provides a bird-eye overview of the history of spatial economic theory. It is organized around three main ideas (and authors): (i) land use and urban economics (Thünen), (ii) the nature of competition across space (Hotelling), and (iii) new economic geography and the emergence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075021
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Female Managers in Hybrid Organizations: Evidence from Financial Cooperatives in Senegal
PERILLEUX, Anaïs; SZAFARZ, Ariane - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014
This paper brings new insights on gender interaction in the management of hybrid organizations. Our database comes from Union des Mutuelles du Partenariat pour la Mobilisation de l’Epargne et du Crédit au Sénégal (UM-PAMECAS), a Senegalese network made of 38 financial cooperatives providing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075073
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Imperfect Mobility of Labor across Sectors: a Reappraisal of the Balassa-Samuelson Effect
CARDI, Olivier; RESTOUT, Romain - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013
This paper investigates the relative price and relative wage effects of a higher productivity in the traded sector compared with the non traded sector in a two-sector open economy model with imperfect substitutability in hours worked across sectors. The Balassa-Samuelson [1964] model predicts...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607573