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China's Overt Economic Rise and Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
We provide an overview of China's economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in … students enrolled in Chinese higher education institutions has increased dramatically; China is producing serious scholars and … students find a rising interest in receiving education in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331384
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China's overt economic rise and latent human capital investment: Achieving milestones and competing for the top
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, … - 2010
We provide an overview of China's economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in … students enrolled in Chinese higher education institutions has increased dramatically; China is producing serious scholars and … students find a rising interest in receiving education in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285739
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China's latent human capital investment: Achieving milestones and competing for the top
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, … - 2011
In this paper we provide an overview of China's human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two … decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China's notable … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286011
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Guest-worker migration, human capital and fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a lowskilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274747
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Regionalism in West Africa : Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? : A Role for Migration
Konseiga, Adama - 2005
In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262227
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Brain Drain and LDCs? Growth: Winners and Losers
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2003
We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the ?beneficial brain drain hypothesis? in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261555
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Massive Migration and its Effect on Human Capital and Growth: The Case of Western Balkan and Central and Eastern European Countries
Landesmann, Michael; Mara, Isilda - 2016
We analyse the effect of massive migration particularly from the Western Balkans and the Central and Eastern European countries on human capital and growth. In our analysis, we use a system of three equations to estimate simultaneously the effect of migration on human capital and on growth. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311513
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Occupation-specific south-north migration
Heuer, Nina - 2010
This paper presents occupation-specific data on south-north migration around the year 2000 using employment data for developing sending and OECD receiving countries from ILO and OECD. These data reveal that the incidence of south-north migration was highest among professionals, one of the two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301808
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Brain drain in globalization: a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269352
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Testing the 'brain gain' hypothesis: Micro evidence from Cape Verde
Batista, Cátia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2010
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this research question. We analyze the case of Cape Verde, a country with allegedly the highest 'brain drain' in Africa, despite a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272710