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This paper studies the determinants of youth emigration decisions, which is considered to be one of the main causes of … people aged 15 to 29 from the year 2016. The aim of the paper is to identify the profile of youth's propensity to emigrate … from Lebanon. The empirical results indicate that youth from non-wealthy backgrounds living in smaller dwellings have a …
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With the 1967 reform, Canada's immigration policy changed from a country-preference system to a points system. The latter provides points according to applicants' education level but abstracts from the quality of their education. This paper considers the points system, the country-preference...
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This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
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In this paper I document the fact that the relationship between human capital, as measured by education, and migration … policy on education and migration. I show that, by giving a monetary contribution to poor families that send their children …
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also regress other indicators of human capital investment on skilled migration rates and find a positive effect on youth …Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus … impact of brain drain migration on gross (pre-migration) human capital formation in developing countries. We found a positive …
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Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...
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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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A growing proportion of the U.S. workforce will have been raised in disadvantaged environments that are associated with relatively high proportions of individuals with diminished cognitive and social skills. A cross-disciplinary examination of research in economics, developmental psychology, and...
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I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal educational attainment, and adult literacy program participation. Pursuing several alternative identification strategies three main results are established. First, I confirm...
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Is there an entrepreneurial personality and does it appear early in life? We provide a new answer on this question by using the so-called Type A behavior traits (Aggression, Leadership, Responsibility, and Eagerness-Energy), measured in childhood and adolescence, and examining their relationship...
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