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The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
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High-skilled emigration has been found to affect developing economies via different channels. With a calibrated general equilibrium framework, this paper finds that the short-run impact of brain drain on resident human capital is extremely crucial, as it does not only determine the number of...
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There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and second-generation occupational choice and mobility is even less investigated. Such research is important because occupations determine success in the labour market. In a country like Germany occupations also reflect a general...
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This paper investigates the human capital investments of migrants whose duration in the host country is limited, either by contract or by their own choice. The first part of the paper develops a model, distinguishing between migrants who immigrate on a fixed contract, and migrants who choose...
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. While China maintains 10% growth in GDP, albeit with a GDP per capita at the low level of a developing country, it is also …
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We study the impact of directors with foreign experience on firms in emerging markets. To establish causality, we use a unique dataset from China and exploit that at different times, Chinese provinces introduced policies to attract highly talented emigrants. These policies led to an exogenous...
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This paper examines how economic stratification affects inequality and growth over time. It studies economies where …-wide linkages (complementary skills, knowledge spillovers). It compares growth and welfare when families are stratified into … slower growth in the short run, but to higher output or even productivity growth in the long run. This trade-off occurs in …
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What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While much of the literature argues that specialization is beneficial, recent work suggests it may be costly in the long run, due to economic or political reasons. I examine this...
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growth potential. In the model, at a good equilibrium a large number of children of well-educated parents take advantage of …
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steady states arise because rents to human capital are self perpetuating. Inequality in abilities may be good for growth … also good for growth because it gives the young property rights over their own human capital, which are thus equivalent to …
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