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Migration, transfers and child labor
Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015
) and show how hiring labor from outside the household and transfers to the household might induce a reduction in children … the hypothesis that both emigration and remittances reduce child labor. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011460733
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Remittances and the brain drain revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross … than characteristics of their family situations explains much of the higher remittances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335976
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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011
We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336074
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Returns to Returning
Gang, Ira N.; Co, Catherine Y.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 1999
We examine the labor market performance of return migrants using the Hungarian Household Panel Survey. Two distinct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334320
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335996
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Documenting the brain drain of "la crème de la crème": Three case-studies on international migration at the upper tail of the education distribution
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
Most of the recent literature on the effects of the brain drain on source countries consists of theoretical papers and cross-country empirical studies. In this paper we complement the literature through three case studies on very different regional and professional contexts: the African medical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336061
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Globalization and migration: A "unified brain drain" model
Brezis, Elise S.; Soueri, Ariel - 2012
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 develop a unified brain drain model that incorporates the decisions of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336067
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Is brain drain passé? The optimal timing of migration
Brezis, Elise S. - 2018
This paper sheds a new perspective on models of migration by integrating in a same structure the decisions about education and work; and by incorporating return migration with "brain waste". Brain waste is defined as the depreciation, due to migration, in the human capital acquired in the home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057424
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Should individuals migrate before acquiring education or after? A new model of brain waste vs. brain drain
Brezis, Elise S. - 2019
Should individuals migrate before acquiring education or after? In order to analyze the optimality of the timing of migration, I develop a model of migration, which combines the two migration decisions into a unique model - decisions about where to get an education and decision about where to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012057428
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Macroeconomic Instability, Migration, and the Option Value of Education
Katz, Eliakim; Rapoport, Hillel - 2001
We explore the relation between variability in the rate of return to human capital and investment in education in the context of migration. Specifically, we show that if migration is a possibility, such variability in the rate of return to human capital can induce residents of developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204711