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Political leadership and bureaucratic autonomy. Effects of agencification

Egeberg, Morten; Trondal, Jarle - ARENA - 2009

Previous studies have shown that agencification tends to undermine political control within a government portfolio. However, doubts have been raised as regards the robustness of these findings. In this paper we document that agency officials pay significantly less attention to signals from...

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EUROPEAN GOVERNMENT(S) Executive Politics in Transition?

Egeberg, Morten - ARENA - 2007

The paper starts by discussing what I think most students of government hold to be the most characteristic features of development over the last couple of decades; namely ‘agencification’ and fragmentation of national governments. Interestingly, when dealing with the problems such a...

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Building executive power at the European level. On the role of EU-level agencies

Egeberg, Morten; Martens, Maria; Trondal, Jarle - ARENA - 2009

Establishing separate executive bodies of a confederation or of a nascent federation of states seems in many respects to be the ‘hard case’ of institution-building. This article argues that ‘agencification’ at the EU level is basically about increasing the potential for more uniform...

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A Labor Mobility Agenda for Development

Clemens, Michael - 2010

globalization of almost all factors of production—except labor. So far, this policy has failed to cause the living standards of most … people in most developing countries to converge with living standards in rich countries. But the globalization of labor … forward is for rich countries to greatly open up legal pathways for temporary labor movement. …

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Skill Flow: A Fundamental Reconsideration of Skilled-Worker Mobility and Development

Clemens, Michael - 2009

Large numbers of doctors, engineers, and other skilled workers from developing countries choose to move to other countries. Do their choices threaten development? The answer appears so obvious that their movement is most commonly known by the pejorative term “brain drain.” This paper...

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Migration and Development Research Is Moving Far beyond Remittances - Working Paper 365

Clemens, Michael; Özden, Çaglar; Rapoport, Hillel - 2014

Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances, migration and development research has broadened to...

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Skill Development and Regional Mobility: Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College - Working Paper 370

Clemens, Michael; Graham, Colum; Howes, Stephen - 2014

Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants’ training before they migrate—linking skill creation and skill...

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A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration - Working Paper 363

Clemens, Michael - 2014

Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms the poor. To mitigate such harm, researchers have proposed a variety of policies designed to tax or restrict high-skill migration. Those policies have been justified as Pigovian...

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Free end-point linear-quadratic control subject to implicit continuous-time systems : Necessary and sufficient conditions for solvability

Geerts, A.H.W. - Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management - 1992

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Solvability conditions, consistency and weak consistency for linear differential-algebraic equations and time-invariant singular systems : The general case

Geerts, A.H.W. - Tilburg University, School of Economics and Management - 1992

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