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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 W. - 2021
Brain drain BD, human capital h, and inequality's institutional impact is examined in a model where a rent …-shaped function of h, with minimum at 0 < h1 < 1; iii) the likelihood that Q improves with BD falls with international inequality; iv …) the likelihood that Q improves with h falls with domestic inequality; v) the likelihood Q improves with h falls (rises …
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Coronavirus pandemic, remote learning and education inequalities
Murat, Marina; Bonacini, Luca - 2020
School closures during the 2020 pandemic forced countries to rapidly adopt distance learning, with uncertain effects on education inequalities. Using PISA 2018 data from France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom, we find that students unable to learn remotely, because of a lack of ICT...
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Job status, international migration and educational choice
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...
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Schooling forsaken : education and migration
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled emigration is troubling, even more...
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Rethinking the inequality-growth nexus : short-term gains and long-term challenges
Duong, Khanh; Nguyen Phuc Van - 2023
This study reexamines the relationship between economic growth and inequality, challenging the conventional view that … regards inequality solely as an impediment to development. While recognizing the essential role of economic growth in … growth. We explore how inequality interplays with pressing global challenges like climate change and pandemics, areas that …
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Why do parents under invest 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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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...
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Effects of childhood peers on personality skills
Feng, Shuaizhang; Kim, Jun Hyung; Yang, Zhe - 2021
Despite extensive literature on peer effects, the role of peers on personality skill development remains poorly understood. We fill this gap by investigating the effects of having disadvantaged primary school peers, generated by random classroom assignment and parental migration for employment....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012704643
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On immigration and native entrepreneurship
Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Jaeger, David A.; McHenry, Peter - 2021
We present a novel theory that immigrants facilitate innovation and entrepreneur-ship by being willing and able to invest in new skills. Immigrants whose human capitalis not immediately transferable to the host country face lower opportunity costs ofinvesting in new skills or methods and will be...
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The economic implications of training for firm performance
Martins, Pedro S. - 2022
This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
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