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The Role of Income and Immigration Policies in Attracting International Migrants
Ortega, Francesc - 2012
This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the determinants of international migration flows. First, we compile a new dataset on annual bilateral migration flows covering 15 OECD destination countries and 120 sending countries for the period 1980-2006. We also collect data on...
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Migration, Trade and Income
Ortega, Francesc - 2013
reflect increased diversity in productive skills and, to some extent, a higher rate of innovation …
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The Aggregate Effects of Trade and Migration : Evidence from OECD Countries
Ortega, Francesc - 2011
Two large but separate bodies of literature analyze the economic effects of international trade and immigration. Given that several factors are important determinants of both trade and migration flows, the previous studies are vulnerable to a potentially serious omitted-variables bias,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127335
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Female Brain Drains and Women's Rights Gaps : A Gravity Model Analysis of Bilateral Migration Flows
Naghsh Nejad, Maryam - 2014
In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055895
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Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations
Docquier, Frédéric - 2006
Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants and the way it affects the well-being of those left behind. First, I present alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779028
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The Elasticity of the Migrant Labor Supply : Evidence from Temporary Filipino Migrants
Bertoli, Simone - 2016
The effect of immigration on host and origin countries is mediated by the way migrants take their labor supply decisions. We propose a simple way of integrating the traditional random utility maximization model used to analyze location decisions with a classical labor demand function at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012986782
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The International Migration of Knowledge Workers : When is Brain Drain Beneficial?
Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - 2021
We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317295
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Heterogeneous Human Capital and Migration : Who Migrates from Mexico to the Us?
Caponi, Vincenzo - 2021
In this paper I document the fact that the relationship between human capital, as measured by education, and migration choices among Mexicans is U-shaped: the highest and lowest educated tend to migrate more than the middle educated. I provide an explanation for the U-shaped relationship based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317332
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Intellectual Property Rights, Migration, and Diaspora
Naghavi, Alireza - 2013
intellectual property rights (IPRs) protection in determining innovation in developing countries (South). We show that although … workers there. By increasing the size of the innovation sector and the skill-intensity of emigration, IPRs protection makes it … correlation between emigration and innovation in the presence of strong IPRs protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092587
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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited : The Microdata Show that More Educated Migrants Remit More
Bollard, Albert - 2009
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013154983