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International migration of skilled workers with endogenous policies

Djajić, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. - 2014

We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and career opportunities at home and abroad. Greater...

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Why go to France or Germany, if you could as well go to the UK or the US? : selective features of immigration to four major OECD countries

Geis, Wido (contributor); Uebelmesser, Silke (contributor); … - 2008

Building on a new data set which is combined from national micro-data bases, we highlight differences in the structure of migrants to four countries, viz. France, Germany, the UK and the US, which receive a substantial share of all immigrants to the OECD world. Looking at immigrants by source...

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Learning from the past : trends in executive compensation over the twentieth century

Frydman, Carola (contributor) - 2008

with the evolution in executive pay and the market for managers during earlier time periods. A case study of General … managers …

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Endogenous skill formation and the source country effects of international labor market integration

Egger, Hartmut (contributor); … - 2007

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Public education in an integrated Europe : studying to migrate and teaching to stay?

Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2004

An increasing international applicability of a given type of education encourages students to invest more effort when studying. Governments, on the other hand, face an incentive to divert the provision of public education away from internationally applicable education toward country-specific...

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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 distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a lowskilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...

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The diffusion of knowledge via manager's mobility

Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David; Sforza, Alessandro - 2016

Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …

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Preferences, rent destruction and multilateral liberalisation : the building block effect of CUSFTA

Ketterer, Tobias; Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Milner, Chris - 2012

the data. Exploring the determinants of Canada's tariff cuts at the 8 digit HS product level, we find that CUSFTA acted as …

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On the political economy of high skilled migration and international trade

Bougheas, Spiros P.; Nelson, Douglas R. - 2012

We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade where policy is determined by a simple referendum. In particular, we address two questions. First, are states already in free trade areas more likely to support full integration...

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Skilled emigration, business networks and foreign direct investment

Kugler, Maurice (contributor); Rapoport, Hillel (contributor) - 2005

In a global context foreign direct investment (FDI) and migration substitute one another in the matching process between workers and firms. However, as labor flows can lead to the formation of business networks, migration can actually facilitate FDI in the long-run. We first present a stylized...

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