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Documenting the brain drain of "la crème de la crème" : three case-studies on international migration at the upper tail of the education distribution

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

Most of the recent literature on the effects of the brain drain on source countries consists of theoretical papers and cross-country empirical studies. In this paper we complement the literature through three case studies on very different regional and professional contexts: the African medical...

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Health risk factors among the older European populations : personal and country effects

García-Muñoz, Teresa M.; Neuman, Shoshana; Neuman, Tzahi - 2014

mortality and morbidity than medical records. The 2011 wave of the rich Survey of Health Aging and Retirement Europe (SHARE) is …

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Price setting and price adjustment in some European Union countries : introduction to the special issue

Levy, Daniel C. (contributor) - 2010 - Last rev.: February 11, 2010

This introductory essay briefly summarizes the eleven empirical studies of price setting and price adjustment that are included in this special issue. The studies, which use data from several European countries, were conducted as part of the European Central Bank's Inflation Persistence Network....

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Globalization, brain drain and development

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011

This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant...

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Assimilation through marriage

Epstein, Gil S.; Lindner Pomerantz, Renana - 2012

During the last few decades cultural changes have been taking place in many countries due to migration. The degree to which the foreign culture influences the local culture, differs across countries. This paper shows how the willingness of locals and immigrants to intermarry influences the...

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Equity capital, bankruptcy risk and the liquidity trap

Levintal, Oren - 2012

the US 1930s, Japan 1990s and recently in the US and Europe. The paper introduces a new balance sheet channel that links …

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Bridges or buffers? : motives behind immigrants' religiosity ; a comparative study of Europe and the United States

Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana - 2013

of the Atlantic - Europe and the United States. The contribution of the study is mainly empirical, trying to identify … populations in the receiving countries, both in Europe and in the United States; and (b) while in the United States the … religiosity of immigrants serves as a bridge between the immigrants and the local population, in Europe it has mainly the function …

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