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Return Migration and Human Capital Flows

Amanzadeh, Naser; Kermani, Amir; McQuade, Timothy - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

migration is a common phenomenon, with 38% of skilled migrants returning to their origin countries within 10 years. Return …. Migrants to advanced economies are positively selected on ability relative to stayers, while within this migrant population …

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Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain

Mayr, Karin - 2008

that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and …

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The Age of Mass Migration in Argentina : Social Mobility, Effects on Growth, and Selection Patterns

Droller, Federico; Fiszbein, Martín; Pérez, Santiago - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

migrants. In this article, we first summarize recent findings characterizing migrants' long-term economic assimilation and … the selection patterns of Italian migrants to Argentina--the largest migratory group to this destination. Our analysis of … this initial stage of the migrants' history shows that Italians who moved to Argentina were positively selected on the …

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Immigrant Entrepreneurship : New Estimates and a Research Agenda

Chodavadia, Saheel; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Kerr, William R.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic impact, and policy levers....

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The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country : Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration

Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Papadia, Andrea; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly understood in developing ones despite the importance of these countries as immigrant destinations. We address this shortcoming by studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during...

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Meritocracy across Countries

Bandiera, Oriana; Kotia, Ananya; Lindenlaub, Ilse; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Are labor markets in higher-income countries more meritocratic, in the sense that worker-job matching is based on skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences? Using internationally comparable data on worker skills and...

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Optimal Migration : A World Perspective

Benhabib, Jess - 2007

We ask what level of migration would maximize world welfare. We find that skill-neutral policies are never optimal. An …

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Bound by Ancestors : Immigration, Credit Frictions, and Global Supply Chain Formation

Choi, Jaerim; Hyun, Jay; Park, Ziho - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper shows that the ancestry composition shaped by century-long immigration to the US can explain the current structure of global supply chain networks. Using an instrumental variable strategy, combined with a novel dataset that links firm-to-firm global supply chain information with a US...

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Welfare Magnet Hypothesis, Fiscal Burden and Immigration Skill Selectivity

Razin, Assaf - 2011

skill composition of migrants while in a restricted mobility regime, the impact will be the opposite, as voters will prefer … selective migration policies, favoring skilled migrants who tend to be net contributors to the fiscal system. We utilize the …

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Bidding for Brains : Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers

McAusland, Carol - 2009

We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from...

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