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In my first paper I examine the impact of short-term economic shocks on physician migration using a new panel dataset on physician migration from 31 African countries to the US and the UK. I estimate distributed-lag regressions of log migration on economic growth, I also instrument for growth...
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This paper focuses on the role of R&D efforts – both domestic and foreign – and human capital investments to the development of national productivity. As technology is also embodied in human capital, the paper empirically investigates the significance of labour mobility as an effective...
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In this paper we develop a neoclassical growth model that aggregates different types of labor skills from strict complementarity to perfect substitution. After having derived general balanced growth conditions and developed explicit growth paths for capital and aggregate labor force, the model...
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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",...
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This dissertation is a collection of four research papers written during my doctoral studies at the University of Konstanz between October 2004 and November 2008. These papers are empirical studies dealing with different aspects in the field of university economics. The focus of the first two...
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graduating can reverse if student mobility is taken into account. When local educational policy attracts foreign students, a … by means of income tax rates as well as amenities offered to students (positive expenditure) or by tuition fees (negative …, the equilibrium tax rate even increases with labor mobility. Amenities offered to students are non-monotonically related …
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,it lectured the Masters in petroleum engineering course to local Australian and international students, graduatingmore than 200 … students. The rapid increase in the price of oil during 2006/7 saw a sudden and substantial growthin industry employment … students reduced to less than 10% of those taking the course. This loss in both student numbers and staff at the same time …
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Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in International Journal of Educational Management, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
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-year female management students evaluated strategies for the same workplace dilemmas as senior women managers (Barrett 2004 …). Findings - For short and medium term dilemmas students, like senior women managers, regarded masculine communication strategies … evaluating the strategies' probability. But when seeking promotion, students avoided some strategies they considered effective …
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The well-formed Facebook profile should be well-visible and understandable, not hidden under unnecessary information. Moreover, the most successful sites have an exquisite design - the design is eye-catching and distracting, the site is pleasure to browse, easy to use, and does not contain...
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