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The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize … their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further …. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape of global talent mobility, which is both asymmetric and rising in …
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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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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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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...
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to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the … microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices. Although we estimate that the income gains from migration are very … different countries. Overall the data show a relatively limited role for income maximization in distinguishing migration …
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high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We … Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …
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This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level … data set on international bilateral migration flows and provide evidence which is consistent with this hypothesis. We … propose different instrumentation strategies to identify the causal effect of skilled migration on log differences of GDP per …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822505
This paper examines the incidence of the mismatch of the educational attainment and the occupation of employment, and the impact of this mismatch on the earnings, of high-skilled adult male immigrants in the US labor market. Analyses for high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also...
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