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Optimal Migration : A World Perspective
Benhabib, Jess - 2010
We ask what level of migration would maximize world welfare. We find that skill-neutral policies are never optimal. An …
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Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain
Mayr, Karin - 2008
Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration increases the expected returns to skills in poor countries, linking the possibility of migrating (brain drain) with incentives to higher education (brain gain). If emigration is...
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High-Skilled Migration and Agglomeration
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2016
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977618
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The International Migration of Knowledge Workers : When is Brain Drain Beneficial?
Kuhn, Peter - 2007
We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778122
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Education, Redistribution, and the Threat of Brain Drain
Haupt, Alexander; Janeba, Eckhard - 2021
This paper analyzes the relationship between brain drain, human capital accumulation and individual net incomes in the presence of a redistributional tax policy, credit market constraints, administrative costs of tax collection, and lack of government commitment. We characterize how decreasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013232920
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Inequality and Schooling Responses to Globalization Forces : Lessons from History
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2014
abundant Europe and the high-wage, labor scarce New World. Those global forces contributed to a reduction in unskilled labor … scarcity in the New World and to a rise in unskilled labor scarcity in Europe. Thus, it contributed to rising inequality in … in todayacirc;euro;TMs world? This paper argues that modern debates about inequality and schooling responses to …
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Finishing Degrees and Finding Jobs : U.S. Higher Education and the Flow of Foreign it Workers
Bound, John - 2014
The rising importance of Information Technology (IT) occupations in the U.S. economy has been accompanied by an expansion in the representation of high-skill foreign-born IT workers. To illustrate, the share of foreign born in IT occupations increased from about 15.5% to about 31.5% between 1993...
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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
Horton, John J. - 2017
Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking...
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Globalization Policies and Israel's Brain Drain
Razin, Assaf - 2017
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Does Emigration Delay Political Change? Evidence from Italy During the Great Recession
Anelli, Massimo - 2016
Mobility within the European Union (EU) brings great opportunities and large overall benefits. Economically stagnant areas, however, may be deprived of talent through emigration, which may harm dynamism and delay political, and economic, change. A significant episode of emigration took place...
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