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Moving On Up for High School Graduates in Russia: The Consequences of the Unified State Exam Reform
Slonimczyk, Fabián; Francesconi, Marco; Yurko, Anna - 2017
In 2009, Russia introduced a reform that changed the admissions process in all universities. Before 2009, admission … education in top colleges accessible to students from peripheral areas who typically did not enroll in university programs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657168
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Population Aging and Migration
Poutvaara, Panu - 2021
International migration flows largely reflect demographic patterns and economic opportunities. Migration flows increase in expected income and other pull factors in potential destinations, and in push factors in the origin, like high unemployment, low wages, and high population growth. Migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224095
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Student flows and migration : an empirical analysis
Dreher, Axel; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005
migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261293
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A note on brain gain and brain drain: Permanent migration and education policy
Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2010
In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host … country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in … benefits accrue in this host country. A higher education quality raises in turn the human capital of the returning students. As …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270869
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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 distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a lowskilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274747
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Explaining Spatial Patterns of Foreign Employment in Germany
Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2017
This paper investigates the main determinants of the regional representation of foreign employees in Germany. Since migration determinants are not necessarily the same for workers of different nationalities, we explain spatial patterns not only for total foreign employment but also for the 35...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615911
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Migrants and Firms: Evidence from China
Imbert, Clement; Seror, Marlon; Zhang, Yifan; … - 2018
This paper estimates the causal effect of rural-urban migration on urban production in China. We use longitudinal data on manufacturing firms between 2001 and 2006 and exploit exogenous variation in rural-urban migration due to agricultural price shocks. Following a migrant inflow, labor costs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018131
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Presence of language-learning opportunities and migration
Huber, Matthias; Übelmesser, Silke - 2019
This paper analyses the effect of the presence of German language learning opportunities abroad on migration to Germany. We use information on the presence of the Goethe-Institut (GI), which is an association that promotes German culture and offers language courses and standardized exams. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018260
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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US?: selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries
Geis, Wido; Uebelmesser, Silke; Werding, Martin - 2008
Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264459
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Managing migration through conflicting policies : an option-theory perspective
Moretto, Michele; Vergalli, Sergio - 2009
Recent European legislation on immigration has revealed a particular paradox on migration policies. On the one hand, the trend of recent legislation points to the increasing closure of frontiers (OECD 1999, 2001,2004), trying to limit the immigrants' stock. On the other hand, there is an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266040