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A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain

Docquier, Fr??d??ric; Lowell, B. Lindsay; Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2012

This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on inter-national migration by educational attainment. The …. The data set can be used to capture the recent trend in women's skilled migration and to analyze its causes and … and exhibit relatively higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated …

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Measuring the International Mobility of Skilled Workers (1990-2000) : Release 1.0

Docquier, Fr??d??ric; Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2013

migration by country of origin and education level. An exception is the paper by Carrington and Detragiache (1998), which … provided skilled migration rates for 61 developing countries in 1990. This study relies on a set of tentative assumptions. For … delivers information that is rich enough to assess the changes in the international distribution of migration rates, to test …

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Is Migration a Good Substitute for Education Subsidies?

Docquier, Fr??d??ric; Faye, Ousmane; Pestieau, Pierre - 2012

Assuming a given educational policy, the recent brain drain literature reveals that skilled migration can boost the … relationship between educational subsidies and migration prospects, obtaining a negative relationship for 105 countries. Based on … this result, the analysis revisits the country specific effects of skilled migration upon human capital. The findings show …

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Skilled Migration : The Perspective of Developing Countries

Docquier, Fr??d??ric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

The authors focus on the consequences of skilled migration for developing countries. They first present new evidence on … the magnitude of migration of skilled workers at the international level and then discuss its direct and indirect effects …, with emphasis on migration and education policy in a context of globalized labor markets …

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Finance, Financial Sector Policies, and Long-Run Growth

Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2012

The first part of this paper reviews the literature on the relation between finance and growth. The second part of the paper reviews the literature on the historical and policy determinants of financial development. Governments play a central role in shaping the operation of financial systems...

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Bank Regulations Are Changing : For Better or Worse?

Barth, James R.; Caprio, Gerard, Jr.; Levine, Ross - 2012

This paper presents new and official survey information on bank regulations in 142 countries and makes comparisons with two earlier surveys. The data do not suggest that countries have primarily reformed their bank regulations for the better over the last decade. Following Basel guidelines many...

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Financial Institutions and Markets across Countries and over Time : Data and Analysis

Beck, Thorsten; Demirg????-Kunt, Asli; Levine, Ross - 2012

This paper introduces the updated and expanded version of the Financial Development and Structure Database and presents recent trends in structure and development of financial institutions and markets across countries. The authors add indicators on banking structure and financial globalization....

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Internationalization and the Evolution of Corporate Valuation

Gozzi, Juan Carlos; Levine, Ross; Schmukler, Sergio L. - 2012

By documenting the evolution of Tobin's q before, during, and after firms internationalize, the authors provide evidence on the bonding, segmentation, and market timing theories of internationalization. Using new data on 9,096 firms across 74 countries over the period 1989-2000, they find that...

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Finance, Firm Size, and Growth

Beck, Thorsten; Demirguc-Kunt, Asli; Laeven, Luc - 2012

The authors examine whether financial development boosts the growth of small firms more than large firms and hence provides information on the mechanisms through which financial development fosters aggregate economic growth. They define an industry's technological firm size as the firm size...

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Benchmarking Financial Systems around the World

??ih??k, Martin; Demirg????-Kunt, Asl??; Feyen, Erik - 2013

This paper introduces the Global Financial Development Database, an extensive dataset of financial system characteristics for 205 economies from 1960 to 2010. The database includes measures of (a) size of financial institutions and markets (financial depth), (b) degree to which individuals can...

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