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Internationalisation of education and returns in the labour market
Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2013
The education services provided in any given country increasingly contribute to human capital that is employed in another country. On the one hand, graduates may seek to obtain the highest return to the knowledge they gained in their home country by working abroad. On the other hand, some...
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Immigration policy in integrated national economies
Bauer, Thomas K.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2000
Migration is an unavoidable aspect of globalization. While full flexibility is politically unfeasible, the paper argues … for regulated openness. Migration in the age of globalization should be judged according to the labor market needs of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011336872
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Globalization, brain drain and development
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011
high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We … migration ; globalization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235188
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Job loss : bridging the research and policy discussion
Lynch, Lisa M. (contributor) - 2005
In this paper I discuss a structural problem facing the United States with respect to our policy responses in the context of trade and technological change and their impact on workers. Both trade and technological change have put enormous pressure on the U.S. economy to raise the skill level of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002659566
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The gender pay gap across countries : a human capital approach
Polachek, Solomon W.; Xiang, Jun - 2014
The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and Sweden earn 80% as much as males, whereas in Austria, Canada and Japan women earn about 60%. Current studies examining cross-country differences focus on the impact of labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010424152
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A brief introduction to human capital measures
Liu, Gang; Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2020
the World Bank (Lange et al., 2018) and by the United Nations Environmental Program and the Urban Institute of Kyushu … the University of Washington (Lim et al., 2018), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP, 2019), the World Bank … (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the World Bank, 2018), and the World Economic Forum (World Economic Forum …
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Geography of skills and global inequality
Burzynski, Michal; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2018
for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education … in the world distribution of skills, slow-growing urbanization in developing countries and a rebound in income inequality …
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The natural resource boom and the uneven fall of the labor share
Dávila, Andrés O.; Fernández, Manuel; Zuleta, Hernando - 2021
We study the effect of the upsurge of natural resources income from the commodity price boom of the 2000s on the functional distribution of income. To do so, we build a general equilibrium model of Dutch disease that characterizes how natural resource windfalls affect equilibrium factor shares....
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Birth order effects in the developed and developing world : evidence from international test scores
Andersen, Dana C.; Güneş, Pinar Mine - 2023
This paper examines the effect of birth order and family size on human capital using a consistent measure of cognitive skills across a diverse set of countries with different levels of development from PISA dataset. Using a birth order index that is orthogonal to family size, as well as...
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Selective migration and economic development : a generalized approach
Cha'Ngom, Narcisse; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2023
of the world population living in extreme poverty. …
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