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The Lame Drain
Dong, Baomin; Fu, Shihe; Gong, Jiong; Fan, Hanwen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper develops a signaling theory where brain drain as well as the opposite of brain drain, a phenomenon we call “lame-drain” can result. In particular, we assume there are three types of agents according to their intrinsic abilities; education (with endogenous intensity) consists of...
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« Brain drain » vs. « Brain gain » ? Division internationale des connaissances et promesses de co-développement
DIANI, Morad; GHIFFI, Noufel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
In the past, the exodus of skills from the southern to the northern hemisphere was Heraclitean, permanent and irreversible, so it was often likened to a hemorrhage of brains and a bias to development. For a long time reduced to its pejorative connotation, this "brain drain" begins over the last...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261052
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Geographic, Gender and Skill Structure of International Migration
Docquier, Frédéric; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Özden, Caglar; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper presents a new bilateral database documenting international migration stocks by gender, education level … collecting or estimating migration to all non-OECD destinations. The end result is comprised of comprehensive 195x195 matrices of … international migration for 1990 and 2000, distinguishing migrants by gender and education (college educated and the less educated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112944
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The Theory of Interhybridity: Socio-political Dimensions and Migration Experiences of Post-communist Western Balkan States
Aliu, Armando - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
regulations, remittances, asylum and migration as an aggregate process). The convergence/divergence of EU member states …’ priorities for migration policies regulate and even shape directly the migration dynamics in migrant sender countries. From this … standpoint, the research explores how main migration factors are influenced by political and judicial factors such as; rule of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258369
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Effective Cost of Brain Drain
Bouoiyour, Jamal; Jellal, Mohamed; Wollf, François-Charles - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2003
motives of migrants who decide to remit back to their families. Drawing on the theory of labor migration under asymmetric … remittances may be seen as an implicit insurance, whose benefits are received only under migration return. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855807
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The new economics of the brain drain
Stark, Oded - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
For nearly four decades now, the conventional wisdom has been that the migration of human capital (skilled workers … not hold. A well designed migration policy can result in a “brain gain” to the developing country rather than in just a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021969
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Development of System Dynamic Model of Latvia’s Economic Integration in the EU
Skribans, Valerijs - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
investments, reduced unemployment and increased labor migration. In the paper the system dynamics model, which describes …; import, its relation to internal producing; and migration processes are considered. Model functioning is measured considering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367975
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"A Theory of Migration as a Response to Occupational Stigma"
Stark, Oded; Fan, Simon C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
A theory is developed of labor migration that is prompted by a desire to avoid "social humiliation." In a general … equilibrium framework it is shown that as long as migration can reduce humiliation sufficiently, migration will occur even between … two identical economies. Migration increases the number of individuals who choose to perform degrading jobs and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008516590
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The Infrastructure and Other Costs of Immigration
Musgrave, Ralph S. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Since 2002, the British Government department responsible for immigration, the Home Office, has claimed immigrants pay £2-5bn more in tax than they withdraw from the public purse. The workings behind this figure omit the cost of the additional infrastructure investments that immigrants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616954
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Migration, Mobility and Human Rights at the Eastern Border of the European Union - Space of Freedom and Security
Silasi, Grigore; Simina, Ovidiu Laurian - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This edited collection of migration papers would like to emphasise the acute need for migration related study and … research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political … Sciences and European Studies only (mostly at post-graduate level). We consider that Romanian universities need more ‘migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621891