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International Migration, Imperfect Information, and Brain Drain

Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2021

We consider a model of international migration where skills of workers are imperfectly observed by firms in the host country and where information asymmetries are more severe for immigrants than for natives. There are two stages. In the first one, workers in the South decide whether to move and...

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Skilled Migration, FDI and Human Capital Investment

Checchi, Daniele - 2008

It is commonly believed that accumulation of human capital (HC) and availability of physical and financial capitals are among the major determinants of economic growth. In a globalised world, where factors of production are increasingly mobile, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be...

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Substitution between Individual and Cultural Capital : Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman

Blau, Francine D. - 2011

In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...

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Optimal Education Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in the Context of Brain Drain

Djajic, Slobodan - 2018

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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Human Capital Investment Under Exit Options : Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment

Chand, Satish - 2019

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high … investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit … argue with theory and a range of nonexperimental falsification tests that exit by skilled workers was a necessary causal …

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On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options : Comment and New Results

Poutvaara, Panu - 2013

Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which...

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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation

Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022

This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model where individuals differ in ability and location preference to evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants' careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our analysis highlights a novel form of selective return...

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Brain Drain in Globalization : A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective

Marchiori, Luca - 2013

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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Migration from Ukraine : Brawn or Brain? New Survey Evidence

Commander, Simon John - 2013

We study selection and labour market outcomes among Ukrainian migrants using unique data from a survey conducted in Ukraine in August – October 2011. We find that migrants are positively selected in terms of age and education. Yet, this is not associated, as might be expected, with their...

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Cognitive and Non-Cognitive Abilities of Immigrants : New Perspectives on Migrant Quality from a Selective Immigration Country

Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2019

Economic theory suggests that selective immigration policies based on observable characteristics will affect …

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