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origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …
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The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
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High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … bias in migration significantly increases welfare in most receiving countries. Moreover, due to a more efficient global … that more – not less – high-skilled migration would increase world welfare …
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This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states' overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...
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This paper analyzes the interaction between migration of high-skilled labor and publicly financed investment. We … subsequent emigration. Migration decisions are based on differences in net income across jurisdictions which may occur … endogenously. The interaction between income differences and migration flows gives rise to the potential of multiple equilibria: a …
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, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be affected in several ways through migration and capital inflows …
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This paper revisits the question of how brain drain affects the optimal education policy of a developing economy. Our framework of analysis highlights the complementarity between public spending on education and students' efforts to acquire human capital in response to career opportunities at...
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. Nonetheless, while BD has been studied extensively, AD drain has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h …), which combines PS and VS (e.g., Canada, 2015 ). I find that i) Migration reduces (raises) source country residents …
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Though a net brain gain has tended to be seen as a benefit and referred to as a 'beneficial brain drain' in the literature, its welfare impact for source country residents – or non-migrants – is at best ambiguous.Increased educational investment in response to a brain drain is equivalent to...
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We consider a model of international migration where skills of workers are imperfectly observed by firms in the host … one, workers in the South decide whether to move and pay the migration costs. These costs are assumed to be sunk. In the … whether to migrate or not depends on the proportion of high-skilled workers among the migrants. The migration game exhibits …
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