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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited : The Microdata Show that More Educated Migrants Remit More
Bollard, Albert - 2009
large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances …
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Migration and Culture
Epstein, Gil S. - 2010
Culture is not new to the study of migration. It has lurked beneath the surface for some time, occasionally protruding openly into the discussion, usually under some pseudonym. The authors bring culture into the open. They are concerned with how culture manifests itself in the migration process...
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Migration and Cultural Change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin - 2022
-based cultural convergence, with cultural remittances as its main driver. In other words and in contrast to the populist narrative …
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Immigrant Inventors and Diversity in the Age of Mass Migration
Campo, Francesco - 2020
A possible unintended but damaging consequence of anti-immigrant rhetoric, and the policies it inspires, is that they may put high-skilled immigrants off more than low-skilled ones at times when countries and businesses intensify their competition for global talent. We investigate this argument...
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Remittances and the Brain Drain
Faini, Riccardo - 2008
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 … home out of a given flow of earnings abroad. We then derive an empirical equation of remittances and estimate it on a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012774098
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Remittances and the Brain Drain : Evidence from Microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa
Bredtmann, Julia - 2016
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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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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Brides for Sale : Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration
Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2012
Every year, a large number of women immigrate as brides from developing countries to developed countries in East Asia. This phenomenon virtually did not exist in the early 1990s, but foreign brides currently comprise 4 to 35 percent of newlyweds in these developed Asian countries. This paper...
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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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On the Robustness of Brain Gain Estimates
Beine, Michel A. R. - 2009
Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a recent paper (Beine, Docquier and Rapoport, Economic Journal, 2008) we used the Docquier and...
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