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large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
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somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has focused on the link between skilled out-migration and educational … home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an …
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Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …
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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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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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high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We … Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …
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Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …
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The aim of this paper is to evaluate the causal effect of foreign acquisition on R&D intensity in targeted domestic firms. We are able to distinguish domestic multinationals and non-multinationals, which allows us to investigate the fear that the change in ownership of domestic to foreign...
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show that there are very high levels of emigration and of return migration among the very highly skilled; the income gains …; there are large benefits from migration in terms of postgraduate education; most high-skilled migrants from poorer countries … send remittances; but that involvement in trade and foreign direct investment is a rare occurrence. There is considerable …
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This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to …
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