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Despite their small number, Israeli economists have become an important fixture in the international academic scene. In recent years, this phenomenon has been characterized by an additional attribute: the number of Israelis who have chosen to leave the country’s universities - or not to return...
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This paper provides a comparative examination of how public universities in two countries, the United States and Israel, have evolved over the past few decades - and how differences between the two have culminated in a rate of academic brain drain from the latter to the former that is...
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behavior, generating possible consequences for non-migrants in both home and host countries. In this paper we provide a … sources. We discuss the possible consequences of migration temporariness for non-migrants in both home and host countries. …
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This paper examines the extent to which the distinct settlement pattern of migrants arriving in the US during the big … migrants to current levels of local development – proxied by GDP per capita at county level in 2005 – while controlling for a … number of factors which may have influenced both the location of migrants at the time of migration, as well as for the …
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This paper presents a critical survey of theories of migration, their welfare and policy implications and their empirical relevance. We also develop some extensions to the theory beginning with a general encompassing model of migration which treats the Harris and Todaro (HT) model as a special...
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efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also …
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. Accounting for sample selectivity, the paper provides regressions explaining reservation wages, and actual earnings for paid … earnings differentials from working and reservation wages and for self-employment and paid-employment earnings matter much … migrants who arrive through family reunification are less likely to work full-time; refugees are also less self-employed. Those …
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The numbers of migrants from the accessions countries have clearly increased since the enlargement of the EU in 2004 …
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Recent influential empirical work has emphasized the negative impact immigrants have on the wages of US-born workers … relative skill levels of immigrants on the relative wages of US workers. However, contrary to the findings of previous … literature, overall immigration generates a large positive effect on the average wages of US-born workers. We show evidence of …
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This paper estimates the effects of immigration on wages of native workers at the national U.S. level. Following Borjas … evaluate the competition as well as cross-skill complementary effects of immigrants on wages. We also emphasize the importance … degree (-0.7%) and on average wages (-0.4%) while it had small positive effects on nativeworkers with no high school degree …
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