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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 growth, I also instrument for growth...

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Human capital, international migration, R&D spillovers, and productivity growth: A panel data analysis

Le, Thanh - 2006

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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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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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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Four Essays on University Economics

Hein, Miriam - 2008

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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Essays on Systems Competition with Human Capital Mobility

Lange, Thomas - 2010

This thesis is a collection of four stand-alone essays on international competition for human capital, together with a general introduction and some concluding remarks. The first essay deals with decentralized public education and human capital mobility. The international mobility of...

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Decision-making for business growth: small family businesses in Selangor, Malaysia.

Jamaluddin, Askiah Binti - 2010

In Malaysia, approximately 90% of the businesses are categorized as small businesses. Although the majority of the … small family businesses in Selangor, Malaysia. The researcher investigated decisions made in both business and family realms …

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Business intelligence for sustainable competitive advantage: the case of telecommunications companies in Malaysia

Ahmad, Azizah - 2011

Taking the telecommunications industry in Malaysia as a case example, the research particularly focuses on the …

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Validating the IS-Impact Measurement Model in Malaysia : A Research in Progress Paper

Elias, Nur Fazidah - 2007

process of this measurement model in small and medium enterprises in Malaysia. It will further validate the IS …

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Validating the IS-Impact model : two exploratory case studies in China and Malaysia

Cao, Lan; Elias, Nur Fazidah - 2009

For over a decade, IT expenditure in China and Malaysia has shown a significant increase, as organisations in these … research in validating the IS-Impact model introduced by Gable, Sedera and Chan in two countries: China and Malaysia. This … and seventeen respondents from a state government in Malaysia were involved in these studies. Findings indicated that most …

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