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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a substantial increase in the prevalence of working from home among white-collar occupations. This can have important implications for the future of the workplace and quality of life. We discuss an additional implication, which we label reverse brain drain: the...
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The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and … this "diaspora capital". …
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number has fueled fears about “Brain Drain” as only 3% of the population obtains tertiary education. Although migration … can compensate for the selection of high-skilled workers into migration. This papers measures the selection, incentive and … migration, thereby decreasing the average schooling level in the origin countries. However, stronger incentives to invest in …
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We study the role of professional networks in facilitating the escape of persecuted academics from Nazi Germany. From 1933, the Nazi regime started to dismiss academics of Jewish origin from their positions. The timing of dismissals created individual-level exogenous variation in the timing of...
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variation in a large emigration wave from Italy between 2008 and 2015 by interacting diaspora networks with economic pull …
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limited empirical evidence on the effectiveness of fiscal incentives in a context of brain drain, and on migration responses … incentives. Using a Triple Difference design and administrative data on return migration, we find that eligible individuals are …
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their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …
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This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing … together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the … legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross …
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different destination countries. Focusing on migration between the four countries in our data set, we find that migration within …
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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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