Existing research examining the self-selection of immigrants suffers from a lack ofinformation on the immigrants´ labor force activities in the home country, quotas limiting whois allowed to enter the destination country, and non-economic factors such as internal civilstrife in the home...

Motivated by the recognition that geography is often correlated with, or an importantdeterminant of, the overall quality of agricultural products, consumer groups, industryrepresentatives, and domestic and trade representatives have increasingly considered thepotential role of geographical...

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...

This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy`s income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public infrastructure investment. In a model with endogenous education and R&D investment decisions we show...

We present a general model of child labor that incorporates the various componentspresented in the literature as explanations for its existence. Our proposal is to mitigate thephenomenon by encouraging temporary emigration...

In the context of an emerging focus on highly skilled migration throughout the OECD area,the question under which circumstances migrants can be expected to be relatively skilled is ofparticular importance. Borjas (1987, 1994) has analysed the relation between the incomedistribution and the...

Der vorliegende Beitrag päsentiert die Ergebnisse einer explorativen Studie über dieArbeits- und Beschäftigungssituation von Frauen in der Berliner Türkischen Ökonomie.Diese wurde im Frühjahr 1998 durchgeführt. Insgesamt wurden 50 Unternehmerinnenund abhängig Beschäftigte befragt. Damit...

Der Beitrag beleuchtet ein Segment der internationalen Mobilität im Kontext derTransformation: die Entsendung westlicher Fach- und Führungskräfte. Auf der Basisvon Fallstudien in Unternehmen der Sektoren Nahrungsmittelproduktion und IuKTechnologienin Lettland werden die Rahmenbedingungen...