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Emigration and Brain Drain; Evidence From the Caribbean

Mishra, Prachi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and … migration rates are particularly striking for the highskilled. Many countries have lost more than 70 percent of their labor … in 2002. Simple welfare calculations suggest that the losses due to high-skill migration (ceteris paribus) outweigh the …

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Against the one-way-street: Analyzing knowledge transfer from industry to science

Fier, Heide; Pyka, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

This study aims at analyzing the differences in the factors that influence the probability of knowledge transfer within industry and from industry to science in the biotechnology sector. In order to model these knowledge flows a citation analysis on the basis of patent data was conducted and a...

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International Scientist Mobility and the Locus of Technology Transfer

Edler, Jakob; Fier, Heide; Grimpe, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

University technology transfer has attracted considerable attention in the literature with a focus on the institutions, the agents involved in technology commercialisation or the differentiation between formal and informal technology transfer mechanisms. There has, however, been little...

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Informal university technology transfer: a comparison between the United States and Germany

Grimpe, Christoph; Fier, Heide - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

Existing literature has confined university technology transfer almost exclusively to formal mechanisms, like patents, licenses or royalty agreements. Relatively little is known about informal technology transfer that is based upon interactions between university scientists and industry...

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Emigration and Wages in Source Countries; Evidence From Mexico

Mishra, Prachi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

This paper empirically examines the effect on wages in Mexico of Mexican emigration to the United States, using data from the Mexican and United States censuses from 1970-2000. The main result in the paper is that emigration has a strong and positive effect on Mexican wages. There is also...

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A Theory of Optimum Currency Areas: Revisited

Flood, Robert P.; Aizenman, Joshua - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

Starting with Friedman and Mundell the academic literature has conducted a high level debate concerning the design of cross-country monetary arrangements. That debate has become very complex and the data requirements necessary for appropriate application of the principles developed are far...

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Exchange Rates and Wages in an Integrated World

Spilimbergo, Antonio; Mishra, Prachi - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2009

We analyze how the pass-through from exchange rate to domestic wages depends on the degree of integration between domestic and foreign labor markets. Using data from 66 countries over the period 1981â€“2005, we find that the elasticity of domestic wages to real exchange rate is 0.1 after a...

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