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Pigovian regulations on skilled emigration are inefficient and non-Pigovian regulations are inequitable and unethical. It …
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This paper examines the effects of both permanent and temporary emigration on human capital formation and economic …. First, the fixed effects model is employed to estimate the effect of emigration on school enrollment rates in the source … emigration ratio) is conducive to the improvement of both middle and high schools enrollments. In contrast, the magnitude of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008507027
This paper examines the effects of both permanent and temporary emigration on human capital formation and economic …. First, the fixed effects model is employed to estimate the effect of emigration on school enrollment rates in the source … emigration ratio) is conducive to the improvement of both middle and high schools enrollments. In contrast, the magnitude of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008559037
emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand … emigration from high-income countries we focus not only on factors that refer to individual characteristics, but also on the …, etc. Based on data about the emigration intentions of the Dutch population collected during the years 2004-2005 we …
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emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand … emigration from high-income countries we focus not only on factors that refer to individual characteristics, but also on the …, etc. Based on data about the emigration intentions of the Dutch population collected during the years 2004-2005 we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137297
The education services provided in any given country increasingly contribute to human capital that is employed in another country. On the one hand, graduates may seek to obtain the highest return to the knowledge they gained in their home country by working abroad. On the other hand, some...
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This study quantifies the disadvantage in literacy skills that arises from the linguistic distance between their mother tongue and host country language, combining individual cross-country data on literacy scores with unique information on the linguistic distance between languages.
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This study quantifies the disadvantage in the formation of literacy skills of immigrants that arises from the linguistic distance between mother tongue and host country language. Combining unique cross-country data on literacy scores with information on the linguistic distance between languages,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010617558
This study examines the returns to foreign and local language skills of immigrants in the Spanish labor market. Different sources of endogeneity are addressed by deriving a set of novel instruments for language proficiency through a measure of linguistic dissimilarity. Using cross-sectional data...
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This paper investigates earnings differentials between immigrants and natives. We focus on returns and on the (imperfect) international transferability of human capital. Data are drawn from the 2009 Italian Labour Force Survey (LFS). We show that returns to human capital are considerably lower...
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