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China's Latent Human Capital Investment : Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Constant, Amelie F. - 2011

In this paper we provide an overview of China's human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China's notable achievements in education as well as its...

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Optimal Education Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in the Context of Brain Drain

Djajic, Slobodan - 2018

This paper revisits the question of how brain drain affects the optimal education policy of a developing economy. Our framework of analysis highlights the complementarity between public spending on education and students' efforts to acquire human capital in response to career opportunities at...

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Human Capital Investment Under Exit Options : Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment

Chand, Satish - 2019

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...

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On Human Capital Formation with Exit Options : Comment and New Results

Poutvaara, Panu - 2013

Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration … result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which may go in both directions. This paper shows that the exit option may …

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Skilled Migration, FDI and Human Capital Investment

Checchi, Daniele - 2008

, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be affected in several ways through migration and capital inflows …

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Climate Change, Migration and Voice : An Explanation for the Immobility Paradox

Beine, Michel A. R. - 2019

This paper sheds light on the apparent paradox, wherein populations adversely affected by climatic conditions fail to migrate as much as would otherwise be expected. Drawing on Hirschman's treatise on Exit, Voice and Loyalty, we develop a simple model, which highlights the theoretical case for a...

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The Dynamics of Return Migration, Human Capital Accumulation, and Wage Assimilation

Adda, Jerome; Dustmann, Christian; Goerlach, Joseph-Simon - 2022

evaluate the mechanisms that affect the evolution of immigrants' careers in conjunction with their re-migration plans. Our … analysis highlights a novel form of selective return migration where those who plan to stay longer invest more into skill …. Finally, our model provides important insight for the design of migration policies, showing that policies which initially …

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

Heckman, James J. - 2012

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled labor acquired before economic reforms began. As development proceeded, the demand for high skilled labor has grown, and, in the past decade, China has made substantial...

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Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children : Evidence from Urban China

Mu, Ren - 2014

When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial support decreases; and their need to save for retirement also falls. We use the expansion of pension coverage from the state sector to the non-state sector in urban China as a...

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Are Returns to Education on the Decline in Venezuela and Does Mission Sucre Have a Role to Play?

Gonzales, Naihobe - 2009

There is anecdotal evidence that the standard of living for the educated has fallen in Venezuela over the last few years. This evidence comes as a surprise because after experiencing an economic downturn in 2002 and 2003, Venezuela's economy has boomed (gross domestic product growth has hovered...

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