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Firms Left Behind : Emigration and Firm Productivity

Giesing, Yvonne - 2018

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 … to 2014 as a source of exogenous variation in the emigration rates from new EU member states. We argue that a potential …

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A back-door brain drain

Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz - 2012

In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the average skill level in the home country. We analyze what appears to be the least threatening scenario from the point of view of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely,...

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Do Natural Hazards Cause International Migration?

Gröschl, Jasmin - 2016

The estimated amount of people affected by natural hazards stands at a staggering number of about 243 million people per year. While not all of the affected move across borders, international migration potentially provides an adaptation mechanism to natural hazards. The aim of this paper is to...

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International Migration of Skilled Workers with Endogenous Policies

Djajic, Slobodan - 2014

production function for human capital, the country's emigration rate, and the international wage differential. We use the model …

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Dissecting Network Externalities in International Migration

Beine, Michel A. R.; Docquier, Frédéric; Ozden, Caglar - 2021

Existing migrant networks play an important role in explaining the size and structure of immigration flows. They affect the net benefits of migration for future migrants by lowering assimilation costs (‘self-selection’ channel) and increase the probability of potential migrants to obtain a...

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A Note on Brain Gain and Brain Drain : Permanent Migration and Education Policy

Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2021

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 the first place. However, it induces the host...

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Externalities, human capital formation, and corrective migration policy

Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 1999

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Externalities, human capital formation, and corrective migration policy

Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 1999

When productivity is fostered by an individual's own human capital as well as by the economy-wide average level of human capital, individuals under-invest in human capital. A strictly positive probability of migration to a richer country raises both the level of human capital formed by...

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Tales of migration without wage differentials : individual, family, and community contexts

Stark, Oded (contributor) - 2003

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Differential migration prospects, skill formation, and welfare

Stark, Oded; Zakharenko, Roman - 2011

This paper develops a one sector, two-input model with endogenous human capital formation. The two inputs are two types of skilled labor: "engineering," which exerts a positive externality on total factor productivity, and "law," which does not. The paper shows that a marginal prospect of...

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