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Mobility of students and quality of higher education: An empirical analysis of the "Unified Brain Drain" model
Brezis, Elise S.; Soueri, Ariel - 2013
Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the migration of individuals encompassing decisions already at the level of education. We present a unified brain drain model that incorporates the decisions of an...
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Globalization and migration: A "unified brain drain" model
Brezis, Elise S.; Soueri, Ariel - 2012
social mobility. …
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Why migrate: For study or for work?
Brezis, Elise S. - 2016
Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and presents a unified model, wherein the two migration...
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Returns to Apprenticeship Training in Austria: Evidence from Failed Firms
Fersterer, Josef; Pischke, Jörn-Steffen; Winter-Ebmer, … - 2007
Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and...
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Clash of Career and Family: Fertility Decisions after Job Displacement
Bono, Emilia Del; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unex- pected career interruptions which occur as a consequence of job displace- ment. Using an event study approach we compare the birth rates of dis- placed women with those of women una®ected by job loss after establish- ing the...
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Unemployment and Subsequent Wages: Does Gender Matter?
Wiklund, Fredrik - 1999
Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job? This paper addresses that question using the 1991 wave of the Level of Living Survey. The results suggest that men who experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of...
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Brain drain and development traps
Bénassy, Jean-Pascal; Brézis, Elise S. - 2011
This paper links the two fields of 'development traps' and 'brain drain'. We construct a model which integrates endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some underdevelopment traps: an economy starting with a low level of...
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Involuntary integration in public education, fertility and human capital
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2008
This article analyzes the negative side of involuntary integration in public education - its effect on whites. The model shows that the flight from the integrated multicultural public schools to private education increases private educational expenditures and decreases fertility among more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336029
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Inter-ethnic redistribution and human investments
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2009
This article analyzes income redistribution in the inter-ethnic context. The model shows that redistribution in favor of less prosperous ethnic minorities raises fertility among the unskilled minority recipients, lowers fertility among the contributing local skilled, slows human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336073
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Job-hopping in Silicon Valley: some evidence concerning the micro-foundations of a high technology cluster
Fallick, Bruce; Fleischman, Charles A.; Rebitzer, James B. - 2005
and resources toward firms with superior innovations. Using new data on labor mobility, we find higher rates of job …. Mobility rates in other California computer clusters are similar to Silicon Valley's, suggesting some role for features of … California law that make non-compete agreements unenforceable. Consistent with our model of innovation, mobility rates outside of …
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