We bring to bear a novel dataset covering the employment history of about 450 million individuals from 180 countries to … study return migration and the impact of skilled international migration on human capital stocks across countries. Return … migration is a common phenomenon, with 38% of skilled migrants returning to their origin countries within 10 years. Return …

immigrant-founded firms. This higher propensity towards innovation is only partly explained by differences in education levels …

studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … studies that focus on the United States to understand the effects of migration from poor to rich countries, our context is …

We use a panel of survey responses linked to administrative data in Germany to measure the depreciation of skills while … cognitive and noncognitive skills while workers remain unemployed. We find the same pattern in a panel of American workers. The …

skills between 1978 and 1986 accounts for all of the increase in the wage premium associated with post-secondary education …Using data from two longitudinal surveys of American high school seniors, we show that basic cognitive skills had a …. We also show that high school seniors' mastery of basic cognitive skills had a much smaller impact on wages two years …

policy. This paper concentrates on the importance of labor force quality, measured by cognitive skills in mathematics and … have a strong and robust influence on growth. One standard deviation in measured cognitive skills translates into one … more standard quantity measure of labor force skills. Further, the estimated growth effects of improved labor force quality …

International Adult Literacy Survey we find that employment of skilled to unskilled labour is unrelated to differences in skill …Greater job creation in the US than in Germany has often been related to greater wage dispersion coupled with less … regulated labour and product markets in the US. Based on the Comparative German American Structural Database and the …

The close connection between US and China in scientific research and education in the 2000s produced a large group of …

skilled labor but brought limited or ambiguous effects to their employment levels …