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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
human capital externalities, gathering microdata beyond censuses, and carefully considering optimal policy - among others …
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The making of social democracy: the economic and electoral consequences of Norway’s 1936 folk school reform
Acemoglu, Daron; Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Salvanes, Kjell G.; … - 2021
by the reform significantly increased their education and experienced higher labor income. Our main result is that the …. These results are not driven by the direct impact of education and are not explained by higher turnout, or greater attention …
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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775
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Measuring the spatial misallocation of labor : the returns to India-Gulf guest work in a natural experiment
Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
"Guest workers" earn higher wages overseas on temporary low-skill employment visas. This wage effect can quantify global inefficiencies in the pure spatial allocation of labor between poorer and richer countries. But rigorous estimates are rare, complicated by migrant self-selection. This paper...
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