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Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which … emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …
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Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which … emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839273
institutions. We improve and expand upon previous studies by (i) examining decade-long migration flows that (ii) include flows not … migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these flows to differences in political and economic … the information in zero value migration flows and (iv) examining not only total migration flows but also college …
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This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to …
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This paper uses U.S. Census data from 1990 and 2000 to provide evidence on the labor market characteristics of European-born workers living in the US. It is found that there is a positive wage premium associated with these workers, and that the highly skilled are overrepresented compared with...
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increase in the labor market demand for diverse sets of skills, have all contributed to the emergence of high-skilled migration … as a major issue. High-skilled migration is often discussed in narrow terms of ?brain drain/brain gain?, when both the … pattern of migration and its effects appear to be much more complex. However, our understanding of the effects of high skilled …
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somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has focused on the link between skilled out-migration and educational …
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This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. We … higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated with the gender gap in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268634
Recent changes in information and communication technologies (ICT) have contributed to a dramatic increase in the integration and interdependence of countries, markets and people. This paper focuses on an increasingly important aspect of globalization, the international movement of people, with...
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Following a seminal contribution by Borjas (1987), a large literature has analyzed how income distribution and 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...
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