Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde. This is allegedly the African country suffering from the largest "brain drain",...

This dissertation, titled “Flexibility in European Wage Structure and itsimplications for the European Unemployment,” studies the problem of high rates ofunemployment in Europe during the last few decades through the optic of European wagebehavior. It examines the European wage structure –...