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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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Managing Migration Through Conflicting Policies : An Option-Theory Perspective

Moretto, Michele - 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...

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International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills

Patt, Alexander - 2017

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

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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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Drawbridges Down : Altruism and Immigration Preferences

Hansen, Ole-Petter; Legge, Stefan - 2021

This paper advances and empirically establishes the idea that altruism is an important determinant of individual preferences over immigration. Using data from the European Social Survey from 2014 and 2015, our results document that individual norms and values strongly shape preferences over...

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Dutch Disease and the Mitigation Effect of Migration : Evidence from Canadian Provinces

Beine, Michel A. R.; Coulombe, Serge; Vermeulen, Wessel - 2021

This paper looks at whether immigration can mitigate the Dutch disease effects associated with booms in natural resource sectors. We first derive predicted changes in the size of the non-tradable sector from a small general-equilibrium model à la Obstfeld-Rogoff, supplemented by a resource...

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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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Skill, Innovation and Wage Inequality : Can Immigrants Be the Trump Card?

Das, Gouranga Gopal - 2018

With the ensuing immigration reform in the US, the paper shows that targeted skilled immigration into the R&D sector that helps low-skilled labor is conducive for controlling inequality and raising wage. Skilled talent-led innovation could have spillover benefits for the unskilled sector while...

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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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