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World migration community covers 3% of the world population, in Europe it is around 7% and 4% in the Czech Republic …. Europe is an important target for migration stimulated by the work offer but also by wars and natural disasters. In Western … migrants. Recently, we have faced new trends in international mobility which are different from traditional migration flows …
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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...
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migration. It focuses on two major objectives that are the determinants of the migration and its likely impacts on developing … economies. Within the framework of the new economics of skilled labor migration, this research has attempted to test empirically … the relevance of some components of the most recent new economic models of skilled labor migration. Using available data …
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prospects, associates the high-level of skills and revenues for all scenarios. In the same way, the remittances policy, in case …
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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 …
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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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In this paper, we analyse the possible channels through which informality, remittances and migration could interact and … regarding the effects of the informal sector on economic growth. Moreover, thanks to globalization, migration and remittances … consequently affect growth in Mexico. In order to do so, we develop a simple endogenous growth model that allows for remittances …
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additional investments that immigrants necessitate. 4. Do remittances reduce real incomes for natives? It is concluded that they … remittances could conceivably be ten times the official figure. In short the cost imposed on UK natives by immigrants could easily …
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Although the phenomenon of international migration has been around for a while, in the last decades there has been a … monetary remittances. These tendencies have revived the debate in the academic and policy spheres over their potential social … international migration and make special emphasis on how the Latin American experience fits in it. We first present an overview of …
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Macedonia has a large diaspora, high emigration rate and large amount of remittances received. The objective of this … is made to the role of remittances. The Remittances Survey 2008 is used, while dissatisfaction, feeling unequal and … emigrate, irrespective of their level of dissatisfaction. Remittances were found to play a strong role for the inclination to …
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