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COVID-19, Working from Home and the Potential Reverse Brain Drain
Bakalova, Irina; Fidrmuc, Jan; Berlinschi, Ruxanda; … - 2021
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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Guest-worker migration, human capital and fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274747
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Academic Migration and Academic Networks: Evidence from Scholarly Big Data and the Iron Curtain
Kamel, Donia; Pollacci, Laura - 2023
migration. Academics in countries behind the Iron Curtain were strongly isolated from the rest of the world. This context poses … the question of the importance of academic networks for migration post the fall of the Berlin Wall and Iron Curtain. Using … cost of migration and thus acting as a facilitator or a de-facilitator of migration. The signal channel on the other hand …
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Integration, mobility, and human capital formation
Haupt, Alexander; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
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Firms Left Behind: Emigration and Firm Productivity
Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2017
This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm total factor productivity. We exploit time,...
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Migration, Congestion and Growth
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2017
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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Persecution and Escape : Professional Networks and High-Skilled Emigration from Nazi Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Lindenthal, Volker; Mukand, Sharun; … - 2021
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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Global Collaborative Patents
Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William R. - 2016
-border mobility of inventors within the firm. The inventor team composition has important consequences for how the new knowledge is …
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Why Academic Quality in Higher Education Declines
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2015
We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training, but is also associated with higher cost of...
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College Curriculum, Diverging Selectivity, and Enrollment Expansion
Kaganovich, Michael; Su, Xuejuan - 2016
We analyze the impact of expansion of higher education on student outcomes in the context of competition among colleges which differentiate themselves horizontally by setting curricular standards. When public or economic pressures compel less selective colleges to lower their curricular demands,...
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