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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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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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Does School Autonomy Make Sense Everywhere? Panel Estimates from PISA

Hanushek, Eric A.; Link, Sebastian; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Decentralization of decision-making is among the most intriguing recent school reforms, in part because countries went in opposite directions over the past decade and because prior evidence is inconclusive. We suggest that autonomy may be conducive to student achievement in well-developed...

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Shall We Keep the Highly Skilled at Home? The Optimal Income Tax Perspective

Simula, Laurent - 2011

the Citizen and Resident criteria, preventing emigration of the highly skilled is not necessarily optimal because the …

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Skilled Worker Migration and Trade : Inequality and Welfare

Bougheas, Spiros - 2011

We develop a two-sector, two-country model where trade is driven by technological differences. Each country is populated by large number of heterogeneous workers distinguished by their level of skills. Given that one country has a technological advantage in the skilled intensive good when we...

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Migration and Trade

Egger, Peter H. - 2011

Theoretical and empirical research in economics suggests that bilateral migration triggers bilateral trade through a number of channels. This paper assesses the functional form of the impact of migration on trade flows in a quasi-experimental setting. We provide evidence that the relationship is...

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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration

Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2017

This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding...

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