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relationships have the opposite signs in economies characterized by skilled migration (relative to the native population). Such …
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redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We … analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …
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There are concerns about the attachment of immigrants to the labor force, and the potential policy responses. This paper uses a bi-national survey on immigrant performance to investigate the sorting of individuals into full-time paid-employment and entrepreneurship and their economic success....
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita … than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which …
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The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those … suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic …
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The most basic economic theory suggests that rising incomes in developing countries will deter emigration from those … suggest something quite different: that over the course of a "mobility transition", emigration generally rises with economic …
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, we show that local governments responded to this migration shock with selective and persistent tax raises as well as … effects on people's preferences for redistribution. In areas with larger inflows in the 1940s, people have substantially … higher demand for redistribution more than 50 years later. …
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in the immigration flows from different countries, sampling error, and the effects of emigration – is fundamentally …
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capturing the rationale and essence of the above-mentioned redistribution model and considers its sensitivity and robustness to …
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Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the new brain drain literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and that such a net brain gain results in an increase in...
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