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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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Micro evidence of the brain gain hypothesis : the case of Cape Verde
Batista, Catia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro
do not emigrate. Alternative channels (namely remittances, family disruption, and general equilibrium effects at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012530246
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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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Essays on Migration and Agricultural Development
Gonzalez Velosa, Carolina - 2011
The economic consequences of international migration have spurred vigorous debates among policy makers. There also are … economies and development economists having dissenting views about the impact of emigration and remittances on source countries … local agricultural economies adapted their crop and technology mix in response to migration-induced changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450914
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THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF MIGRATION. A ROMANIAN OVERVIEW
IVAN, Paul Panfil - 2015
Migration is a complex phenomenon, with complex and diverse implications. Meanwhile the society is in a constant change …’t migration itself, but the integration of migrants in host societies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316220
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Regional marriage patterns and trends in Northern Sudan
Abdelrahman, Abdelrahman Ibrahim - 1989
Marriage is an important institution for both individuals and society as a whole. It is a significant event in the life cycle of individuals; for society at large it represents the creation of a new unit of production, consumption, distribution and exchange of goods and services. In most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009438848
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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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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