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Brain drain in globalization: a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective

Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009

The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...

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Testing the 'brain gain' hypothesis: Micro evidence from Cape Verde

Batista, Cátia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2010

Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this research question. We analyze the case of Cape Verde, a country with allegedly the highest 'brain drain' in Africa, despite a...

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On human capital formation with exit options: comment and new results

Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

Katz and Rapoport (2005) conclude that with linear production technology and the possibility of unilateral migration, region-specific shocks may increase the average level of education. Previously, Poutvaara (2000) derived a corresponding result with Cobb-Douglas technology and migration which...

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Temporary Migration and Economic Assimilation

Dustmann, Christian - 2000

In this paper, I study temporary migrations, and its consequences for immigrants' behaviour. I distinguish between temporary migrations where the return time is exogenous, and temporary migrations where the migrant chooses when to return. I then illustrate the consequences both types of...

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The Elusive Concept of Immigrant Quality: Evidence from 1970-1990

Duleep, Harriet Orcutt; Regets, Mark C. - 2002

The labor market "quality" of immigrants is a subject of debate among immigration researchers, and a major public policy concern. However, traditional methods of measuring human capital are particularly difficult to apply to recently arrived immigrants. Many factors that have a negative effect...

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A "glass-ceiling" effect for immigrants in the Italian labour market?

Dell'Aringa, Carlo; Lucifora, Claudio; Pagani, Laura - 2012

This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...

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Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of...

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Internationalisation of Education and Returns in the Labour Market

Poot, Jacques; Roskruge, Matthew - 2013

The education services provided in any given country increasingly contribute to human capital that is employed in another country. On the one hand, graduates may seek to obtain the highest return to the knowledge they gained in their home country by working abroad. On the other hand, some...

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Linguistic Barriers in the Destination Language Acquisition of Immigrants

Isphording, Ingo E.; Otten, Sebastian - 2014

There are various degrees of similarity between the languages of different immigrants and the language of their destination country. This linguistic distance is an obstacle to the acquisition of a language, which leads to large differences in the attainments of the language skills necessary for...

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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 … argue with theory and a range of nonexperimental falsification tests that exit by skilled workers was a necessary causal …

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