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Migrant Networks, Migrant Selection, and High School Graduation in Mexico
Miranda, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
across migration and education decisions as well as within groups of individuals such as the family are explicitly controlled …This paper examines whether family and community migration experience affect the probability of high school graduation … are estimated to control for the endogeneity of education and migrant network variables. Correlation of unobservables …
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Labor market and demographic scenarios for ASEAN countries (2010-35). Education, skill development, manpower needs, migration flows and economic growth
Bruni, Michele - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2013
, from demography to education and vocational training, from macroeconomic to employment, unemployment and migration … its education and training. The proposal is that these contributions be collected in an Education Migration Fund managed … scenarios for the period 2010-35. The scenarios outline manpower needs, migration flows and population growth on the basis of …
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Does Foreign Language Proficiency Foster Migration of Young Individuals within the European Union?
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa; Kuehn, Zoë - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
economic success goes both ways. Using data on the study of foreign languages during compulsory education in European countries …, we test whether and how much language proficiency determines migration flows across Europe. The European Union with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884295
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Migration Experience, Aspirations and the Brain Drain - Theory and Empirical Evidence
Böhme, Marcus H.; Glaser, Toni - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014
in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … education of her children back home. We find that this aspirations effect increases the average skill level in the society for a … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010905577
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Labor market and demographic scenarios for ASEAN countries (2010-35). Education, skill development, manpower needs, migration flows and economic growth
Bruni, Michele - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2013
, from demography to education and vocational training, from macroeconomic to employment, unemployment and migration … its education and training. The proposal is that these contributions be collected in an Education Migration Fund managed … scenarios for the period 2010-35. The scenarios outline manpower needs, migration flows and population growth on the basis of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929895
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Spaniards in the wider World
Marcén, Miriam; Bellido, Héctor - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between the education level of Spanish emigrants and their country of destination … destination countries can be due to dissimilarities in their level of education. To explore this, we use census microdata covering …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269012
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Self-Selection and Earnings of Emigrants from a Welfare State
Poutvaara, Panu; Munk, Martin D.; Junge, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Following a seminal contribution by Borjas (1987), a large literature has analyzed how income distribution and redistribution are related to immigration to various rich countries. In this paper, we take a look at the other side of the coin. We analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025603
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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more
McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009
Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317978
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Arbeitsmigration in Zentralasien: Kinder profitieren nicht von Geldüberweisungen
Kröger, Antje - In: DIW Wochenbericht 79 (2012) 6, pp. 11-17
In den zentralasiatischen Ländern Kirgistan und Tadschikistan müssen viele Erwachsene ihre Familien zeitweilig verlassen, um sich in anderen Regionen oder Ländern einen Arbeitsplatz zu suchen. Die Geldüberweisungen an die Familien stellen in beiden Ländern einen erheblichen wirtschaftlichen...
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International Student Mobility and High-Skilled Migration: The Evidence
Felbermayr, Gabriel J.; Reczkowski, Isabella - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der … - 2012
Using information from the UNCTAD, we construct a new balanced panel database ofbilateral international student mobility for 150 origin countries, 23 host countries, andthe years 1970–2000. We match these data with information on bilateral stocks of internationalmigrants by educational...
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