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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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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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A note on brain gain and brain drain: Permanent migration and education policy
Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2010
In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in the first place. However, it induces the host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270869
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Subsidizing education in the economic periphery: Another pitfall or regional policies?
Südekum, Jens - 2002
One of the most prominent instruments of regional policy is to foster education and human capital formation in economically lagging regions. However, regional policy of this type can actually hurt instead of help the poor areas. The reason is that individual geographical mobility increases with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010295551
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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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International mobility of the highly skilled, endogenous R&D, and public infrastructure investment
Grossmann, Volker; Stadelmann, David - 2008
This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy's income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public infrastructure investment. In a model with endogenous education and R&D investment decisions we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268783
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Brain drain and its determinants: a major issue for small states
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states' overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268800
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On the robustness of brain gain estimates
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009
Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a recent paper (Beine, Docquier and Rapoport, Economic Journal, 2008) we used the Docquier and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269646
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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