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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779028
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Immigration and Redistribution
Elsner, Benjamin - 2020
welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is … ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other hand …, natives may demand more redistribution as an insurance against labour market risks brought by immigration. In this chapter, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823309
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Remittances and Migration Intentions of the Left-Behind
Piracha, Matloob - 2013
Migration and the consequent flow of remittances are like a double-edged sword; while keeping many out of poverty, they can also result in further brain drain and demographic imbalance for the country. Using a large household survey data from Moldova and employing simultaneous equations model we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072157
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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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The International Migration of Knowledge Workers : When is Brain Drain Beneficial?
Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - 2021
We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317295
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Heterogeneous Human Capital and Migration : Who Migrates from Mexico to the Us?
Caponi, Vincenzo - 2021
In this paper I document the fact that the relationship between human capital, as measured by education, and migration choices among Mexicans is U-shaped: the highest and lowest educated tend to migrate more than the middle educated. I provide an explanation for the U-shaped relationship based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317332
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Unequal Inequalities : Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?
Duncan, Denvil - 2012
This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099109
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Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution? The Unemployment Bias of Time Consistent Redistributive Policies
Lehmann, Etienne - 2021
Because of Time Inconsistency considerations, policymakers underestimate the drawbacks of wage rigidity as a redistributive tool. Consequently, they redistribute inefficiently income from high to low skilled workers. They typically implement too much wage rigidity whereas other means (in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317603
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In Front of and Behind the Veil of Ignorance : An Analysis of Motivations for Redistribution
Bjerk, David - 2016
This paper uses a laboratory experiment to explore individuals' motivations for redistribution. The laboratory results … show that as income uncertainty diminishes, participants become more extreme in their preferences for redistribution. The … findings suggest that for most people, the motivation for redistribution is financial self-interest – namely as insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012981509
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Migration, Redistribution and the Universal Welfare Model
Andersen, Torben M. - 2012
capturing the rationale and essence of the above-mentioned redistribution model and considers its sensitivity and robustness to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104653