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The International Migration of Knowledge Workers : When is Brain Drain Beneficial?
Kuhn, Peter - 2007
, remittances, return migration, or an emigration 'lottery'. Instead, they are driven purely by the public nature of knowledge goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778122
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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 egalitarian welfare function induces a policy that entails moving mainly unskilled immigrants into the rich countries, whereas a welfare function skewed highly towards the rich...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760411
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771799
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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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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
globalization should pay more attention to history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012752104
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International Migration, Remittances, and Household Investment : Evidence from Philippine Migrants' Exchange Rate Shocks
Yang, Dean - 2010
the Philippine peso leads to increases in household remittances received from overseas. The estimated elasticity of … Philippine-peso remittances with respect to the Philippine/foreign exchange rate is 0.60. These positive income shocks lead to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012761278
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A Global View of Cross-Border Migration
di Giovanni, Julian - 2014
differences, international trade, remittances, and a heterogeneous workforce. We compare welfare under the observed levels of … flows - such as Jamaica or El Salvador - are also better off due to migration, but for a different reason: remittances. The …% in countries with large incoming remittances. Our results are robust to accounting for imperfect transferability of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013056595
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Gender and Assimilation Among Mexican Americans
Blau, Francine D. - 2012
Using 1994-2003 CPS data, we study gender and assimilation of Mexican Americans. Sourcecountry patterns, particularly the more traditional gender division of labor in the family in Mexico,strongly influence the outcomes and behavior of Mexican immigrants. On arrival in the UnitedStates,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104997
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A Nation of Immigrants : Assimilation and Economic Outcomes in the Age of Mass Migration
Abramitzky, Ran - 2013
During the Age of Mass Migration (1850-1913), the US maintained an open border, absorbing 30 million European immigrants. Prior cross-sectional work on this era finds that immigrants initially held lower-paid occupations than natives but experienced rapid convergence over time. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091138