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Prepared for a Conference on Transnational Networks in Princeton in 2001, this paper explored the comparative dynamics of the trans-local networks which South Asian migrants from Mirpur (Pakistan), Jullundur (India) and Sylhet (Bangladesh) have constructed around themselves.

This paper takes a close look at the impact of large-scale overseas emigration - and the resultant inflow of migrant remittances - on the local economy of Mirpur District in Pakistan. No other District in Pakistan has seen a higher proportion of its population engage in transnational migration...

Migration has brought about, and continues to be responsible for, some of the most momentous social, economic, and political changes in the contemporary world. Over the years, millions of people have moved from their rural homes in search of better paid work, usually in cities many thousands of...

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...

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...

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...

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",...

Was verbirgt sich hinter dem Begriff des Campus Recruiting? Welche Methoden undInstrumente empfiehlt die Wissenschaft und welche werden in der unternehmerischenPraxis genutzt? Welche Rolle spielt in diesem Rahmen das Arbeitgeberimage?Wie lässt sich das Bild eines Unternehmens als Arbeitgeber...

In der vorliegenden Bachelorarbeit wird ein Überblick über die zu erwartenden Auswirkungen der aktuellen Finanz- und Kapitalmarktkrise auf verschiedene Akteure der deutschen Immobilienwirtschaft gegeben. In diesem Zusammenhang wird näher auf die im Bankensektor angesiedelten Ursachen...