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China's latent human capital investment : achieving milestones and competing for the top
Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2011
In this paper we provide an overview of China's human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two … decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China's notable … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009238510
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Optimal education policy and human capital accumulation in the context of brain drain
Djajić, Slobodan; Docquier, Frédéric; Michael, Michael S. - 2018
This paper revisits the question of how brain drain affects the optimal education policy of a developing economy. Our framework of analysis highlights the complementarity between public spending on education and students' efforts to acquire human capital in response to career opportunities at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910685
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Looking back on the lessons of "higher education and developing countries: peril and promise" : perspectives on China and India
Bloom, David E.; Altbach, Philip G.; Rosovsky, Henry - 2016
focuses particularly on how two key countries, China and India, have developed in light of the key recommendations in Peril …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571936
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Beneficial brain drain and non-migrants' welfare
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2018
Though a net brain gain has tended to be seen as a benefit and referred to as a 'beneficial brain drain' in the literature, its welfare impact for source country residents - or non-migrants - is at best ambiguous. Increased educational investment in response to a brain drain is equivalent to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011849103
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China’s higher education expansion and its labor market consequences
Li, Shi; Xing, Chunbing - 2010
Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China’s higher education expansion commenced in … school graduate. That of the college graduate deceased, but only slightly and not significantly. -- China ; higher education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003969742
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775
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Brain drain-induced brain gain and the Bhagwati tax : are early and recent paradigms compatible?
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2018
Based on a welfare-maximization model of skilled migration where education generates a positive externality, this paper examines whether the early view regarding brain drain's (BD) negative impact on source countries and the Bhagwati tax (BT) associated with it, is compatible with the recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868679
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Brain refrain and human capital formation in Spain
Blanco-Álvarez, Jose; Parsons, Christopher R.; Tang, … - 2022
We examine how low and high skilled internal emigration causally affect investments in human capital at origin. We provide theoretical and empirical evidence of a disincentive mechanism through which individuals refrain from education should low skilled emigration prove a viable alternative. Our...
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Selective migration and economic development : a generalized approach
Cha'Ngom, Narcisse; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2023
International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development in countries of origin. We establish the theoretical micro-foundations of the relationship between selective emigration and human capital accumulation in a multi-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014288247
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Public education in an integrated Europe : studying to migrate and teaching to stay?
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2006
This paper analyzes public provision of internationally applicable and country-specific education, when job opportunities available to those with internationally applicable education are uncertain. Migration provides a market insurance in case labor market opportunities in the home country are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003504676