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Immigration Following EU Eastern Enlargement
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Werding, Martin - In: CESifo Forum 2 (2001) 2, pp. 40-47
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Book Review: Emigration, Brain Drain and Development: The Case of Sub-Saharan Africa by Arno Tanner
Tanner, Arno - In: Journal of African Development 10 (2008) 1
This is a review of the book "Emigration, Brain Drain and Development: the Case of Sub-Saharan Africa" by East-West Books Helinski, Finland and Migration Policy Institute
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The Effectiveness of South Africa’s Immigration Policy for Addressing Skills Shortages
Rasool, Fatima; Botha, Christoff; Bisschoff, Christo - In: Managing Global Transitions 10 (2012) 4 (Winter), pp. 399-418
effectiveness of sa’s immigration policy to support skills immigration. The outcome of this study indicated that South Africa …’s immigration policy is restrictive and has undoubtedly influenced the shortage of skills in the country. This study has confirmed … immigration policy is very restrictive and is thus not helpful in addressing the skills shortages of the country …
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Financial Liberalization and the Brain Drain: A Panel Data Analysis
Mitra, Aniruddha; Bang, James T.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an exploratory factor analysis, we are able to distinguish between two dimensions of financial...
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Migration of health workers and health of international migrants: framework for bridging some knowledge disjoints between brain drain and brawn drain
Khadria, Binod - In: International Journal of Public Policy 8 (2012) 4/5/6, pp. 266-280
developed North countries, immigration of overseas non-health-workers, particularly those at the lower end of the skill spectrum …
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EU Policies and African Human Capital Development
Nyarko, Yaw - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2010
Brain Circulation between the European Union (EU) and Sub-Saharan Africa is a crucial ingredient in Human Capital formation in the latter. A major constraint to African development is the very low base of skilled and highly educated workers and professionals. The production of skilled workers...
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A Case against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration - Working Paper 363
Clemens, Michael - 2014
Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms the poor. To mitigate such harm, researchers have proposed a variety of policies designed to tax or restrict high-skill migration. Those policies have been justified as Pigovian...
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Brain Drain and Institutions of Governance: Educational Attainment of Immigrants to the US 1988-1998
Mitra, Aniruddha; Bang, James T. - 2010
We investigate the impact of home country institutions on the skill level of immigrants to the United States over 1988-1998. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that institutions are multidimensional and that the different dimensions have conflicting impacts on the migration of skilled...
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Gender bias and the female brain drain
Mitra, Aniruddha; Bang, James T. - 2010
This paper contributes to the emerging literature on gender differences in the causes and consequences of brain drain. Differentiating between gender bias in the access to economic opportunities and gender differentials in economic outcomes, we find that differences in access have a significant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008527476
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National IQ means, calibrated and transformed from educational attainment, and their underlying gene frequencies
Weiss, Volkmar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Any general statement as to whether the secular trend of a society is eugenic or dysgenic depends upon a reliable calibration of the measurement of general intelligence. Richard Lynn set the mean IQ of the United Kingdom at 100 with a standard deviation of 15, and he calculated the mean IQs of...
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