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Brain drain and factor complementarity
Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2006
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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Bribery: Who Pays, Who Refuses, What Are The Payoffs?
Hunt, Jennifer; Laszlo, Sonia - 2005
We provide a theoretical framework for understanding when an official angles for a bribe, when a client pays, and the payoffs to the client’s decision. We test this frame work using a new data set on bribery of Peruvian public officials by households. The theory predicts that bribery is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476834
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INEQUALITY, INSTITUTIONS AND REDISTRIBUTION
Aysan, Ahmet Faruk - 2005
This dissertation explores the role of efficiency of redistributive institutions (ERI)on redistribution. The first … empirically analyzes the role of efficiency ofredistributive institutions on redistribution in the form of social security and … model that an increasein GDP per capita and democracy increases ERI. However, there is less convincingevidence for the …
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An Empirical Investigation of Why Doctors Migrate and Women Fail to Go for Screening.
Okeke, Edward Nwabugwu - 2009
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 conditions: a one percentage point decline in lagged growth increases physician out-migration by approximately 0 …
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Human capital, international migration, R&D spillovers, and productivity growth: A panel data analysis
Le, Thanh - 2006
&D than large countries. The results confirm that having a better education system and more open trade and migration policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448802
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Micro evidence of the brain gain hypothesis : the case of Cape Verde
Batista, Catia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro
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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Zuwanderungspolitik und die Finanzierung der Sozialsysteme
Bauer, Konrad - 2004
, migration policy sole is not able to solve the fiscal problems of the welfare system. The second part treats the question … on migration policy submitted by the german government using the preceding results. …
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Rural-to-Urban Migration in Developing Countries : The Applicability of the Harris Todaro Model with a Special Focus on the Chinese Economy
Bahns, Karin Margarethe - 2005
The thesis studies the applicability of the HarrisTodaro model to rural-to-urban migration processes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471828
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Technologie, Lernexternalitäten und Ungleichentwicklung: Einkommenszyklen offener Volkswirtschaften
Andrä, Jan - 2011
Ländern und zwischen den Technologiegenerationen und durch Migration von Arbeit. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009474402
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Die berufliche Positionierung ausländischer Erwerbspersonen in Bayern
Schutkin, Andreas - 2000
Die Arbeit untersucht den beruflichen Platzierungsprozess in Bayern ansässiger Ausländer. Betrachtet werden Erwerbspersonen italienischer, griechischer, türkischer, jugoslawischer und österreichischer Nationalität. Diskutiert wird die Frage nach den Arbeitsmarktchancen von abhängig...
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