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African Leaders : Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows

Constant, Amelie F. - 2010

Leaders are critical to a country's success. They can influence domestic policy via specific measures that they enforce, and they can also influence international public opinion towards their country. Foreign Direct Investments are also essential for a country's economic growth. Our hypothesis...

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Understanding Low Average Returns to Education in Africa : The Role of Heterogeneity across Education Levels and the Importance of Political and Economic Reforms

Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2021

Until very recently, the conventional wisdom was that the return to education was very high in Africa. However, some … recent analysis point to low average returns to education in some African countries including Nigeria. Given these low … the case of Nigeria. Following the sudden death of military general Sanni Abacha, Nigeria moved to democracy in 1999 …

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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa

Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011

This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader … institutional development. After reporting results from standard growth regressions, I analyze the role of Africa's peculiar history … influence, in and out of Africa, of the slave trades. The essay ends with critical conclusions and suggestions for further …

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Do Study Abroad Programs Enhance the Employability of Graduates?

Pietro, Giorgio Di - 2013

Despite the great popularity of international educational mobility schemes, relatively little research has been conducted to explore their benefits. Using data on a large sample of recent Italian graduates, this paper investigates the extent to which participation in study abroad programs during...

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Pulls of International Student Mobility

Kahanec, Martin - 2012

Economic theory suggests that high-skilled immigration generally has positive effects on the receiving economy. International student mobility is an important channel through which high-skilled immigrants arrive. The purpose of this paper is to identify some of the key determinants of...

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The Americanization of European Higher Education and Research

Borghans, Lex - 2009

Over the past two decades there has been a substantial increase in the mobility of students in Europe, while also research has become much more internationally oriented. In this paper we document changes in the structure of research and higher education in Europe and investigate potential...

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The Two-Step Australian Immigration Policy and its Impact on Immigrant Employment Outcomes

Gregory, Robert - 2014

Three decades ago most immigrants to Australia with work entitlements came as permanent settlers. Today the annual allocation of temporary visas, with work entitlements, outnumbers permanent settler visas by a ratio of three to one. The new environment, with so many temporary visa holders, has...

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Study Abroad Programmes and Students' Academic Performance : Evidence from Erasmus Applications

Granato, Silvia; Havari, Enkelejda; Mazzarella, Gianluca; … - 2022

Erasmus+ is one of the most popular programmes financed by the European Union. It provides international mobility grants to university students while staying enrolled at their home university. This paper brings novel evidence on the effect of participating in the programme on students' academic...

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Cultural Diversity and Plant‐Level Productivity

Trax, Michaela S. - 2012

Using comprehensive data for German establishments (1999-2008), we estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish diversity in the establishment's workforce and in the aggregate regional labor force where the...

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Agency and Communication in IMF Conditional Lending : Theory and Empirical Evidence

Marchesi, Silvia - 2014

We focus on the role that the transmission of information between a multilateral (the IMF) and a country has for the optimal design of conditional reforms. Our model predicts that when agency problems are especially severe, and/or IMF information is valuable, a centralized control is indeed...

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