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Migration, Political Institutions, and Social Networks

Batista, Catia - 2018

What is the role of international migrants and, specifically, migrant networks in shaping political attitudes and behavior in migrant sending countries? Our theoretical framework proposes that migration might change individual social identities and thus stimulate intrinsic motivation for...

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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 international student mobility among higher education policies. For this purpose we …

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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...

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Information, Intermediaries, and International Migration

Bazzi, Samuel; Cameron, Lisa; Schaner, Simone; … - 2022

Job seekers often face substantial information frictions related to potential job quality. This is especially true in international labor markets, where intermediaries match prospective migrants with employers abroad. We conducted a randomized trial in Indonesia to explore how information about...

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Migration, Knowledge Diffusion and the Comparative Advantage of Nations

Bahar, Dany - 2016

Do migrants shape the dynamic comparative advantage of their sending and receiving countries? To answer this question we study the drivers of knowledge diffusion by looking at the dynamics of the export basket of countries, with particular focus on migration. The fact that knowledge diffusion...

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Rational Inattention and Migration Decisions

Bertoli, Simone - 2020

Acquiring information about destinations can be costly for migrants. We model information frictions in the rational inattention framework and obtain a closed-form expression for a migration gravity equation that we bring to the data. The model predicts that ows from countries with a higher cost...

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International Migration, Imperfect Information, and Brain Drain

Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2021

We consider a model of international migration where skills of workers are imperfectly observed by firms in the host country and where information asymmetries are more severe for immigrants than for natives. There are two stages. In the first one, workers in the South decide whether to move and...

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Information and Competition Entry

Ewers, Mara - 2012

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject...

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Network Architecture and Mutual Monitoring in Public Goods Experiments

Carpenter, Jeffrey P. - 2010

fundamental, properties in graph theory allow us to interpret the variation in the patterns of behavior that arise in the …

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Diaspora Economics

Fang, Tony; Wells, Alex - 2022

, remittances from their diaspora abroad are a key source of capital for development. Global talent mobility is also examined …

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