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' education. -- Remittances ; Migration ; Brain Drain ; Immigration Policy …We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human …
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large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. -- Remittances ; Migration ; Brain …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …
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Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …
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In an overlapping generations model with two social classes, rich and poor, parents of the different social classes vote on two issues: redistributive policies for them and education investment for their children. Public education is the engine for growth through its effect on human capital; but...
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Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to … analyze the migration of individuals encompassing decisions already at the level of education. We present a "unified brain …" drain model that incorporates the decisions of an individual related to migration vis‐à‐vis both education and work. In the …
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migration, I develop a model of migration, which combines the two migration decisions into a unique model - decisions about … solution. But, when we incorporate "brain waste" and "return migration", then it is optimal to migrate when young. …
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I show how the influences of unskilled immigration, differential fertility between immigrants and the local indigenous population, and incentives for investment in human capital combine to predict the decline of the West. In particular, indigenous low-skilled workers lose from unskilled...
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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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