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Kahanec, Martin; Králiková, Renáta - 2011

Economic theory suggests that high-skilled immigration generally has positive effects on the receiving economy. International student mobility is an important channel through which high-skilled immigrants arrive. The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the key determinants of...

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Are China's ethnic minorities less likely to move?

Gustafsson, Björn; Yang, Xiuna - 2015

This study uses China's Inter-Census Survey 2005 to analyse the extent migration behaviour among 14 large ethnic … cases investigated, a minority ethnicity reduces migration probabilities for people registered in rural China. This is … groups. In contrast, Korean and Hui have a higher probability of migration than the majority. For people with an urban hukou …

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Earnings among nine ethnic minorities and the Han majority in China's cities

Gustafsson, Björn; Yang, Xiuna - 2016

nine large urban ethnic minorities: Zhuang, Hui, Manchurian, Tujia, Uighur, Miao, Tibetan, Mongol and Korean. It also asks … subsample of the 2005 China's Inter-Census Survey. We find examples of three different changes over time in earnings premiums …

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Are the more educated receiving more training? : evidence from Thailand

Ariga, Ken; Brunello, Giorgio - 2002

This paper investigates the relationship between education and training provided by the firm, both on the job and off the job, using a unique dataset based on a survey of Thai employees conducted in the summer of 2001. We find a significant and negative relationship between educational...

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Return intentions of university-educated Turkish expatriates

Güngör, Nil Demet (contributor); … - 2005

The study presents research findings on the return intentions of Turkish professionals residing abroad, where the targeted group comprises individuals working at a full time job abroad and possessing a tertiary-level degree. The data are obtained from an internet survey of Turkish professionals...

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Why do foreign-owned-firms pay more? : the role of on-the-job training

Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank A. - 2002

Foreign-owned firms have consistently been found to pay higher wages than domestic firms to what appear to be equally productive workers in both developed and developing countries alike. Although a number of studies have documented and some attempted to explain this stylized fact, the issue...

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A model for industrial development of the federal region of Kurdistan : science and technology policy, instruments and institutions

Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2007

leader and the South Korean as its follower. The objective is to review the industrialization process in these two economies …

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Explaining rising returns to education in urban China in the 1990s

Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household … reforms and technological changes that increased the relative demand for skill. -- Education ; earnings ; inequality ; China …

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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, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...

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International trade and job polarization : evidence at the worker level

Keller, Wolfgang; Utar, Hâle - 2023

competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising …

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