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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth
Ehrlich, Isaac; Kim, Jinyoung - 2015
capital, population, income growth and distribution, and migration trends are endogenous. We derive new insights about the …Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching or exceeding that of skilled natives. We offer theoretical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428830
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Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005874
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The Emigration Life Cycle: How Development Shapes Emigration from Poor Countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270292
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Economic Influences on Child Migration Decisions:Evidence from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh
Edmonds, Eric V.; Salinger, Philip - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
examining the correlates of out-migration for children under 15whose mother's reside in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, India. 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861384
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Religion and Growth
Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2023
development. It affects human capital through both religious and secular education. It affects population and labor by influencing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469638
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Human Capital Persistence and Development
Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo R. - 2015
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307313
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A "Healthy Immigrant Effect" or a "Sick Immigrant Effect"? Selection and Policies Matter
Constant, Amelie F.; García-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, … - 2015
paper we study the health assimilation of immigrants within the context of selection and migration policies. Using SHARE … data we are able to compare Israel and Europe that have fundamentally different migration policies. Israel has virtually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345398
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The Effect of Occupational Visas on Native Employment: Evidence from Labor Supply to Farm Jobs in the Great Recession
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
positive outside it. Job-specific estimates of this kind are useful alongside more generalized evaluations of immigration … because immigration policy often regulates access to specific occupations. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653220
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Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Innovation in the U.S. High-Tech Sector
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Kim, Mee Jung; Lee, … - 2019
We estimate differences in innovation behavior between foreign versus U.S.-born entrepreneurs in high-tech industries. Our data come from the Annual Survey of Entrepreneurs, a random sample of firms with detailed information on owner characteristics and innovation activities. We find uniformly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005891
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How Different Are Immigrants? : A Cross-Country and Cross-Survey Analysis of Educational Achievement
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2004
population of immigrant pupils: Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262141