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Measuring Skilled Migration Rates : The Case of Small States

Docquier, Frédéric - 2016

Recent changes in information and communication technologies have contributed to a dramatic increase in the degree of integration and interdependency of countries, markets, and people. Against this background, one aspect of particular concern for small states is the international movement of...

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Measuring International Skilled Migration

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2007

Measuring International Skilled Migration: A New Database Controlling for Age of Entry Michel Beine, Frederic Docquier … proposed that exclude immigrants who arrived before ages 12, 18, and 22. the Belgian National Fund for Economic Research … immigration. Bringing together the census data on age of entry, which represent 77 percent of skilled immigrants to the OECD, and …

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Skilled Migration : The Perspective of Developing Countries

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2021

This chapter focuses on the effects of skilled migration on developing countries. We first present new evidence on the …

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Are Migrant Minorities Strategically Self-Selected?

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2010

In this paper we focus on the possibility of migrants' self-selection through strategic remittances. We argue that migrants of a specific community might be pooled with migrants from other ethnic minorities on the labor market of the foreign host country and that this could reduce the occurrence...

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Selective migration and economic development : a generalized approach

Cha'Ngom, Narcisse; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2023

International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development in countries of origin. We establish the theoretical micro-foundations of the relationship between selective emigration and human capital accumulation in a multi-country...

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Measuring Skilled Emigration Rates : The Case of Small States

Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2021

Recent changes in information and communication technologies (ICT) have contributed to a dramatic increase in the integration and interdependence of countries, markets and people. This paper focuses on an increasingly important aspect of globalization, the international movement of people, with...

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