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A Political Economy and Voicing Model of the Institutional Impact of Brain Drain, Human Capital, Inequality and Country Size
Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2021
Brain drain BD, human capital h, and inequality's institutional impact is examined in a model where a rent-seeking elite taxes residents and voicing affects the likelihood of regime change. We find that BD and h's impact on institutional quality (Q) are as follows: i) Q is a U-shaped function of...
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Ability Drain: Size, Impact, and Comparison with Brain Drain under Alternative Immigration Policies
Schiff, Maurice - 2017
Ability drain's (AD) impact seems economically significant, with 30% of US Nobel laureates since 1906 being immigrants, and immigrants or their children founding 40% of Fortune 500 companies. Nonetheless, while brain drain (BD) and gain (BG) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine...
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Benefits and Costs of Brain and Ability Drain
Schiff, Maurice - 2024
Ability drain's (𝐴𝐷) impact on host countries is significant: 30 percent of US Nobel laureates since 1906 are immigrants, and they or their children founded 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies. The article first provides a detailed description of the multiple home country benefits...
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From Engineer to Taxi Driver? Language Proficiency and the Occupational Skills of Immigrants
Imai, Susumu; Stacey, Derek; Warman, Casey - 2018
We examine the ability of immigrants to transfer the occupational human capital they acquired prior to immigration. We first augment a model of occupational choice to study the implications of language proficiency on the cross-border transferability of occupational human capital. We then explore...
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Does vocational education pay off in China? Instrumental-variable quantile-regression evidence
Dai, Li; Martins, Pedro S. - 2020
As China's firms upgrade their position in the quality ladder, vocational education may become more important. In this paper, we study returns to secondary vocational education in China paying attention to individual heterogeneity. We use instrumental variables based on geographical and...
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Wage Distributions in Origin Societies and Occupational Choices of Immigrant Generations in the US
Zhan, Crystal - 2020
This paper studies the occupational selection among generations of immigrants in the United States and links their choices to the occupational wage distribution in their country of origin. The empirical results suggest that individuals are more likely to take up an occupation in the US that was...
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Why do Parents Underinvest in their Children's Education? Evidence from China
Wang, Jiyuan; Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola - 2022
In this paper we study whether the presence of binding liquidity constraints and the existence of fixed costs can explain the underinvestment of parents in their children's human capital. We first incorporate these two potential mechanisms into the theoretical model of Raut & Tran (2005) and...
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The Impact of Exposure to Missionaries on the English Language Proficiency and Earnings of Immigrants in the USA
Larsen, Nicholas; Chiswick, Barry R. - 2019
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore how potential exposure to missionary activity impacts both English language proficiency and labor market earnings of male and female immigrants to the United States. Design/Methodology/Approach: This study uses the pooled files of the American...
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The supply of foreign talent: How skill-biased technology drives the location choice and skills of new immigrants
Beerli, Andreas; Indergand, Ronald; Kunz, Johannes S. - 2021
An important goal of immigration policy is to facilitate the entry of foreignborn workers whose skills are in short supply in national labor markets. In recent decades, information and communication technology [ICT] has fueled the demand for highly educated workers at the expense of lower...
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Tourism Boom, Housing Doom: Excessive Tourism And International Emigration
Mikulić, Josip; Vitezić, Vanja; Srhoj, Stjepan; … - 2024
emigration. This study addresses this gap by analyzing Croatia, a country that experienced a significant population decline … first establish a positive association between rising housing prices and emigration across both regions. More critically, we … demonstrate that tourism activity correlates with increased emigration in areas experiencing excessive tourism (late TALC stage …
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