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Long-Term Orientation and Educational Performance
Figlio, David - 2016
We use remarkable population-level administrative education and birth records from Florida to study the role of Long-Term Orientation on the educational attainment of immigrant students living in the US. Controlling for the quality of schools and individual characteristics, students from...
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Labor and the Emerging World Economy
Bloom, David E. - 1993
This paper explores the emergence of a world economy since 1950 and its implications for the world's labor force. There are four main sets of conclusions. First, although the integration of national economies since 1950 has been considerable, the world economy is still in its adolescence. Rapid...
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The Economic Consequences of the International Migration of Labor
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2008
international migration affects the incomes of individuals in sending and receiving countries and of migrants themselves. Were a … social planner to choose the migration policies that would maximize global welfare, she would need to know, among other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464157
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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 … that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and … for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We …
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Occupational Choice and Development
Eeckhout, Jan - 2007
The rise in world trade since 1970 has raised international mobility of labor services. We study the effect of such a globalization of the world's labor markets. We find that when people can choose between wage work and managerial work, the output gains are U-shaped: A worldwide labor market...
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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy
Hatton, Timothy J. - 2004
Most labor scarce overseas countries moved decisively to restrict their immigration during the first third of the 20th century. This autarchic retreat from unrestricted and even publicly-subsidized immigration in the first global century before World War I to the quotas and bans introduced...
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International Migration and Human Rights
Hanson, Gordon H. - 2010
illustrative example, I estimate that migration from Mexico to the United States raises global income by an amount equivalent to …
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Mobile Scientists and International Networks
Scellato, Giuseppe - 2012
evidence suggests that migration plays an important role in the formation of international networks. Approximately 40 percent …
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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
Horton, John - 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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Global Talent Flows
Kerr, Sari Pekkala - 2016
their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455965