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Brezis, Elise S. - 2016

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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Redistribution or Education? The Political Economy of the Social Race

Bernasconi, Michele; Profeta, Paola - 2021

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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Mobility of students and quality of higher education : an empirical analysis of the "Unified Brain Drain" model

Brezis, Elise S.; Soueri, Ariel - 2013

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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Immigration, Fertility, and Human Capital : A Model of Economic Decline of the West

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

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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Macroeconomic instability, migration, and the option value of education

Katz, Eliakim (contributor); Rapoport, Hillel (contributor) - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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 …

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Immigration, Unemployment and Growth in the Host Country : Bootstrap Panel Granger Causality Analysis on OECD Countries

Boubtane, Ekrame; Coulibaly, Dramane; Rault, Christophe - 2021

This paper examines the causality relationship between immigration, unemployment and economic growth of the host country. We employ the panel Granger causality testing approach of Konya (2006) that is based on SUR systems and Wald tests with country specific bootstrap critical values. This...

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Taxing Human Capital Efficiently When Qualified Labour is Mobile

Richter, Wolfram F.; Kunze, Lars - 2021

The paper studies the effect that skilled labour mobility has on efficient education policy. The model is one of two periods in which a representative taxpayer decides on labour, education, and saving. The government can only use linear tax and subsidy instruments. It is shown that the mobility...

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