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Brain drain in globalization : a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective

Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009

The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...

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The role of marriage in immigrants' human capital investment under liquidity constraints

Cohen-Goldner, Sarit (contributor); … - 2006

This paper presents a two-period human capital investment model of married and single immigrants under binding … shown that the comparative advantage in investment that determines which spouse will invest more in local skills depends on … partial specialization in work and investment activities within immigrant households. However, the level invested by each …

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Religion and growth

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023

We use the elements of a macroeconomic production function - physical capital, human capital, labor, and technology - together with standard growth models to frame the role of religion in economic growth. Unifying a growing literature, we argue that religion can enhance or impinge upon economic...

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Migration, the quality of the labour force and economic inequality

Kahanec, Martin (contributor); … - 2008

Mobility of workers involves flows of labour, human capital and other production factors and thus contributes to a more efficient allocation of resources. Besides these effects on allocative efficiency, migrant flows affect relative wages and also change the international and national...

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Does military draft discourage enrollment in higher education? : evidence from OECD countries

Keller, Katarina; Poutvaara, Panu; Wagener, Andreas - 2009

Using data from 1960-2000 for OECD countries, we analyze the impact of compulsory military service on the demand for higher education, measured by students enrolled in tertiary education as a share of the working-age population. Based on a theoretical model, we hypothesize that military draft...

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ICT skills and employment : a randomized experiment

Blanco, Mariana; López Bóo, Florencia - 2010

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the impact that the acquisition of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) skills has on the labor market of two Latin-American cities: Buenos Aires and Bogota. Using cross-sectional data from an experiment that randomly assigned the ICT skills line...

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How much do educational outcomes matter in OECD countries?

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of economic institutions and quantitative measures of...

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Unemployment and productivity growth : an empirical analysis within the augmented Solow model

Bräuninger, Michael; Pannenberg, Markus - 2000

Does a country's level of unemployment have an impact on the long-run growth rate? Incorporating unemployment into a generalised augmented Solow-type growth model, yields some answers to this question. In particular, we show that the impact of unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends...

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Teacher literacy and numeracy skills : international evidence from PIAAC and ALL

Golsteyn, Bart H. H.; Vermeulen, Stan; Wolf, Inge de - 2016

Using the OECD-studies PIAAC and ALL, this paper shows that teachers on average have better literacy and numeracy skills than other respondents in almost all of the 15 countries in the samples. In most countries, teachers outperform others in the bottom percentiles, while in some countries they...

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Ageing and literacy skills : evidence from IALS, ALL and PIAAC

Barrett, Garry F.; Riddell, William Craig - 2016

We study the relationship between age and literacy skills using data from the IALS, ALL and PIAAC surveys. In cross-sectional data there is a negative partial relationship between literacy skills and age that is statistically significant indicating that literacy declines with age, especially...

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