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Determinants of Participation in Manufacturing GVCs in Africa : The Role of Skills, Human Capital Endowment and Migration
Yameogo, Nadege Desiree - 2019
This analysis assesses the role of skills, human capital endowment, and migration as determinants of Sub-Saharan Africa's participation in manufacturing global value chains. Due to lack of reliable data on skilled labor, skilled and unskilled labor contents in exports were generated from the...
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Measuring the International Mobility of Skilled Workers (1990-2000) : Release 1.0
Docquier, Frédéric - 2017
remittances …
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A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility : The Role of Non-Oecd Destinations
Artuc, Erhan - 2017
Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the first time, a global overview of human capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by...
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Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration : International Evidence
Grossmann, Volker - 2017
The international migration of high-skilled workers may trigger productivity effects at the macro level such that the wage rate of skilled workers increases in host countries and decrease in source countries. The authors exploit data on international bilateral migration flows and provide...
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Eight Questions About Brain Drain
Gibson, John - 2017
High-skilled emigration is an emotive issue that in popular discourse is often referred to as brain drain, conjuring images of extremely negative impacts on developing countries. Recent discussions of brain gain, diaspora effects, and other advantages of migration have been used to argue against...
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Emigration and Democracy
Docquier, Frédéric - 2017
Migration is an important yet neglected determinant of institutions. This paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. The authors find that emigration and human capital...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976175
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The Economic Consequences Of"Brain Drain"Of the Best and Brightest : Microeconomic Evidence from Five Countries
Gibson, John - 2017
send remittances; but that involvement in trade and foreign direct investment is a rare occurrence. There is considerable …
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Migration and Remittances in the Former Soviet Union Countries of Central Asia and the South Caucasus : What are the Long-Term Macroeconomic Consequences?
Brownbridge, Martin - 2020
associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as … workers' remittances has had effects analogous to those of Dutch disease in the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan, which have …-Samuelson adjusted real exchange rates, and poor trade performance. In Armenia and Georgia, where remittances are a smaller share of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843972
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Remittances and Labor Supply in the Northern Triangle
Sousa, Liliana - 2018
Through substitution and income effects, remittances can alter an individual's allocation of time between market … 2006 and 2014 to estimate the impact of remittances on labor supply in the three countries of the Northern Triangle (El … Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras). The results show that remittances are associated with a reduction in labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910836
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Evidence on Policies to Increase the Development Impacts of International Migration
McKenzie, David J. - 2017
remittances to be used more effectively, and concerns about externalities from skilled workers being lost. As a result there is … offers support for a number of other policies, such as lowering the cost of remittances, reducing passport costs, offering …
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