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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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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of...

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Global talent flows

Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; Özden, Çağlar; … - 2016

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

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International migration and the integration of labor markets

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor); … - 2002

centuries. It begins with a review of the history of primarily trans-Atlantic migration to the New World during the period of … Oceania and from parts of Asia (primarily India, China and Japan) to other parts of Asia, Africa and the New World. World wars …, immigration restrictions and the Great Depression resulted in a period of low international migration (1913 to 1945). In the post-World …

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High skilled immigration in the international arena

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2005

This conceptual paper, prepared for a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Development, is concerned with the international mobility of high-skilled workers, previously referred to as the "brain drain". After discussing the historical background of high-skilled international...

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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries

Clemens, Michael A. - 2020

Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...

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Krieger, Tim; Renner, Laura; Ruhose, Jens - 2018

This paper studies the effect of the long-term relatedness between countries, measured by their genetic distance, on educational migrant selection. Analyzing bilateral migrant stocks of the 15 main destination countries and 85 sending countries for the year 2000, we find that migrant selection...

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Self-employment and migration

Giambra, Samuele; McKenzie, David J. - 2019

There is a widespread policy view that a lack of job opportunities at home is a key reason for migration, accompanied by suggestions of the need to spend more on creating these opportunities so as to reduce migration. Self-employment is widespread in poor countries, and faced with a lack of...

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The selection of high-skilled migrants

Parey, Matthias; Ruhose, Jens; Waldinger, Fabian; Netz, … - 2015

We measure selection of high-skilled migrants from Germany using predicted earnings. Migrants to less equal countries are positively selected relative to non-migrants, while migrants to more equal countries are negatively selected, consistent with the prediction in Borjas (1987). Positive...

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The economic and social determinants of migrants' well-being during the global financial crisis

Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara - 2018

This paper investigates the economic and social determinants affecting the well-being of temporary migrants before, during and after the financial crisis. Exploiting unique panel data which cover migration spells from Tajikistan between 2001 and 2011, we find that migrants earn less but stay...

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