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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793572
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …’ fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806017
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264528
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269132
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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566456
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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - CESifo - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …’ fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more education. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406148
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Brain Drain and its Determinants: A Major Issue for Small States
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states’ overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822707
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International migration, transfer of norms and home country fertility
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - In: Canadian Journal of Economics 46 (2013) 4, pp. 1406-1430
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of … international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries …' fertility norms. We provide a rigorous test of the diffusion of fertility norms using highly detailed original data on migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010713830
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Network effects in international migration : education versus gender
Beine, Michel; Salomone, Sara - In: The Scandinavian journal of economics 115 (2013) 2, pp. 354-380
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009755457
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Brain Drain and LDCs? Growth: Winners and Losers
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2003
We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the ?beneficial brain drain hypothesis? in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261555