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Modelling the Effects of Trade on Women, at Work and at Home: Comparative Perspectives

Fontana, Marzia - In: Economie Internationale (2004) 99, pp. 49-80

market characteristics and socio-cultural norms shape the way in which trade expansion affects gender inequalities. The paper … also compares simulation results to other approaches in the gender-and-economics literature, discusses strengths and …

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Gender inequality and emigration: Push factor or selection process?

Baudassé, Thierry; Bazillier, Rémi - In: Economie Internationale (2014) 139, pp. 19-47

Our objective in this research is to provide empirical evidence relating to the linkages between gender equality and … gender inequality in origin countries could be a push factor for women. The second one is that gender inequality may create a … “gender bias” in the selection of migrants within a household or a community. An improvement of gender equality would then …

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Diaspora Externalities and Technology Diffusion

Lodigiani, Elisabetta - In: Economie Internationale (2008) 115, pp. 43-64

In this paper, we analyze how skilled migration contributes to TFP growth in the sending countries when diaspora effects in technology diffusion are introduced. To investigate this issue, we start from a previous paper by Vandenbussche, Aghion and Meghir (2006), who examine the contribution of...

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Brain Drain, Remittances, and Fertility

Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zo, Benteng - In: Economie Internationale (2008) 115, pp. 9-42

This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an overlapping generations model which accounts for endogenous fertility and education. Parents choose the number of children they want to raise and decide upon how many children...

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The Brain Drain Between Knowledge-based Economies: the European Human Capital Outflow to the US

Tritah, Ahmed - In: Economie Internationale (2008) 115, pp. 65-108

This paper uses census data from 1980 to 2006 to study the new European emigration to the US. This emigration is about a small but rising number of individuals. Yet since 1990, emigrants are increasingly selected from the upper tail quality distribution of their source country workforce in terms...

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Fuite des cerveaux et formation de capital humain

Docquier, Frederic; Rapoport, Hillel - In: Economie Internationale (1999) 79, pp. 63-72

La fuite de cerveaux s’interprete generalement comme une externalite negative imposee a la population restante. La source de cette externalite, selon les auteurs, reside soit dans le prejudice cause aux facteurs de production complementaires du travail qualifie emigre, soit, d’apres les...

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Migration du travail qualifie et formation de capital humain dans les pays en developpement : un modele stylise et une revue de la litterature recente

Docquier, Frederic; Rapoport, Hillel - In: Economie Internationale (2005) 104, pp. 5-26

Cet article propose un modele stylise permettant d'etudier, dans un cadre analytique unifie, les differents mecanismes par lesquels l'emigration de travailleurs qualifies affecte la formation de capital humain dans les pays en developpement. Pour chacun des canaux envisages -effets de fuite,...

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La politique migratoire francaise a un tournant

Durand, Martine; Lemaitre, Georges - In: Economie Internationale (2006) 108, pp. 115-137

La politique migratoire francaise se trouve a un tournant. Face a l’emergence d’un marche du travail mondial pour les personnes hautement qualifiees et de penuries de main d’œuvre dans certains secteurs de l’economie, la France doit s’orienter vers une plus grande diversification de...

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Is there a medical brain drain?

Chojnicki, Xavier; Oden-Defoort, Cécily - In: Economie Internationale (2010) 124, pp. 101-126

This paper offers initial insights on the general circumstances under which a beneficial or a detrimental brain drain is obtained in the medical sector. For that purpose, we use an original dataset so as to analyze determinants of the evolution in the relative number of medical doctors in the...

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