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The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
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somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has focused on the link between skilled out-migration and educational … home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris … flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an …
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Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …
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Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable …. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances …. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households …
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large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
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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 …
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This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an …
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This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...
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This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for … sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among …
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Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage … the diaspora, investigating on a macro-level the role of migration in cultural convergence across countries and on a micro …
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