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Emigration and Democracy
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129925
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158048
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Does Human Capital Endowment of FDI Recipient Countries Really Matter? Evidence from Cross-Country Firm Level Data
Bhaumik, Sumon K. - 2012
The stylized literature on foreign direct investment suggests that developing countries should invest in the human capital of their labour force in order to attract foreign direct investment. However, if educational quality in developing country is uncertain such that formal education is a noisy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109436
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Brain Drain in Globalization : A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective
Marchiori, Luca - 2013
to domestic production, but it also affects the sending economy's capacity to innovate or to adopt modern technologies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095832
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Do Natural Disasters Affect Human Capital? An Assessment Based on Existing Empirical Evidence
Baez, Javier - 2011
The last few years have seen a notable increase in the number of studies investigating the causes and effects of natural disasters in many dimensions. This paper seeks to review and assess available empirical evidence on the ex-post microeconomic effects of natural disasters on the accumulation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013132978
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Human Capital and Growth : Specification Matters
Sunde, Uwe - 2011
, the effects are heterogeneous across countries with different levels of development. The results suggest that the effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120134
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International Education and Economic Growth
Bergerhoff, Jan - 2013
In recent years international student mobility increased. While net hosting countries are in a better position to win highly educated students for their labour force, they face the additional cost of providing the education. In much of continental Europe these costs are not levied on students,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082754
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The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development
Cervellati, Matteo - 2013
the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086663
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The Economics and Politics of Women's Rights
Doepke, Matthias - 2012
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women … women had few rights before economic development took off. Is development the cause of expanding women's rights, or … conversely, do women's rights facilitate development? We argue that there is truth to both hypotheses. The literature on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013113089
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Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations
Docquier, Frédéric - 2006
positive skilled emigration rate (say between 5 and 10 percent) can also be good for development. Nevertheless, the current …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779028