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This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …
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We study the prevalence and traits of global collaborative patents for U.S. public companies, where the inventor team is located both within and outside of the United States. Collaborative patents are frequently observed when a corporation is entering into a new foreign region for innovative...
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migration costs, utilities and costs both depending on productivity. Three average social criteria are distinguished - national …
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technological advantage in the skilled intensive good when we allow for both trade and migration skilled workers migrate to that … country. We analyze the consequences of this migration for both inequality and welfare for the source and the host country. …
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This article analyzes the effect of migration from a less advanced economy to a more advanced economy on economic … are incorporated. The model shows that out-migration increases fertility and reduces human capital in the source economy …. At the same time, in-migration reduces fertility and can increase or decrease the average level of human capital in the …
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We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our … analysis is the recognition that for free trade, migration, or trade and migration to be adopted, the relevant policy must pass …
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An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific...
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migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of … subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not the lagged endogenous variable is included. The relationship is robust to …
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With endogenous skills and given technology, labor market integration necessarily lowers welfare of the left-behind in a poor sending country, even if all agents face identical emigration probabilities. This is in sharp contrast to the case of exogenous skill supply.
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country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in … long as the permanent migration probability is not too large, this positive effect causes both aggregate and per …
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