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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...

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A global assessment of human capital mobility : the role of non-OECD destinations

Artuc, Erhan; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2014

Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the first time, a global overview of human capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by...

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The gain from the drain : skill-biased migration and global welfare

Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzyński, Michał; Elsner, Benjamin - 2016

sending and receiving countries. In a calibrated multi-country model, we compare the current world to a counterfactual with … that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …

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Impact of ethnic civil conflict on migration of skilled labor

Christensen, Julie; Onul, Darius; Prakarsh Singh - 2016

We reevaluate the hypothesis and empirical result that ethnic civil wars lead to higher skilled emigration (Bang and Mitra, 2013). We develop a simple conceptual framework that predicts contrasting results depending upon if the economy is assumed to be agglomerating in skilled labor or...

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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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A gendered assessment of the brain drain

Docquier, Frédéric (contributor); … - 2007

This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. We use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of...

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Remittances and the brain drain revisited : the microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

Bollard, Albert; McKenzie, David J.; Morten, Melanie; … - 2009

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit...

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Brain drain and inequality across nations

Docquier, Frédéric (contributor) - 2006

Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants and the way it affects the well-being of those left behind. First, I present alternative...

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Female brain drains and women's rights gaps : a gravity model analysis of bilateral migration flows

Naghsh Nejad, Maryam; Young, Andrew T. - 2014

In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the...

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Best and brightest? : the impact of student visa restrictiveness on who attends college in the US

Chen, Mingyu; Howell, Jessica; Smith, Jonathan - 2022

Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet … examine how the anticipated F-1 visa restrictiveness influences US undergraduate enrollment outcomes of international students … international student enrollment in the US. The decreases are larger among international students with higher measured academic …

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