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A political economy and voicing model of the institutional impact of brain drain, human capital, inequality and country size

Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2021

Brain drain BD, human capital h, and inequality's institutional impact is examined in a model where a rent-seeking elite taxes residents and voicing affects the likelihood of regime change. We find that BD and h's impact on institutional quality (Q) are as follows: i) Q is a U-shaped function of...

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Emigration and democracy

Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011

emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled … (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled …

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Migration's income and poverty impact has been underestimated

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor) - 2006

This paper examines two issues associated with the impact of migration on household income and poverty. First, existing studies have typically overlooked a feature of migration that should be taken into account in estimating its impact, namely the fact that migration changes the size of the...

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Trade and migration with renewable natural resources : out-of-steady-state dynamics

López, Ramón; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2010

Commodity price increases associated with the entry of China, India and other countries into the world economy has led to increased pressure on common-property renewable natural resources (NR). The problem is particularly worrisome for economies that obtain a large share of their income from the...

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Ability drain

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2015

Is ability drain (AD) economically significant? That immigrants or their children founded over 40% of the Fortune 500 US companies suggests it is. Moreover, brain drain (BD) induces a brain gain (BG). This cannot occur with ability. Nonetheless, while BD has been studied extensively, AD drain...

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Brain drain-induced brain gain and the Bhagwati tax : are early and recent paradigms compatible?

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2018

Based on a welfare-maximization model of skilled migration where education generates a positive externality, this paper examines whether the early view regarding brain drain's (BD) negative impact on source countries and the Bhagwati tax (BT) associated with it, is compatible with the recent...

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Benefits and costs of brain and ability drain

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2024

Ability drain's (AD) impact on host countries is significant: 30 percent of US Nobel laureates since 1906 are immigrants, and they or their children founded 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies. However, while brain drain (BD) and gain (BG) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine...

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Remittances and the brain drain : skilled migrants do remit less

Niimi, Yoko (contributor); Özden, Çağlar (contributor); … - 2008

, financial sector development and expected growth rate. The estimation takes potential endogeneity into account, an issue not …, financial sector development and population, and decrease with these countries' income and expected growth rate. -- Migration …

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Brain drain and productivity growth : are small states different?

Schiff, Maurice W. (contributor); Wang, Yanling (contributor) - 2008

education, and with the interaction between the two, and it decreases with the emigration of skilled labor (brain drain); ii …

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Beneficial brain drain and non-migrants' welfare

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2018

Though a net brain gain has tended to be seen as a benefit and referred to as a 'beneficial brain drain' in the literature, its welfare impact for source country residents - or non-migrants - is at best ambiguous. Increased educational investment in response to a brain drain is equivalent to a...

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