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agglomeration of skilled labour can reduce "real" income in both regions. Even if there is a "winning" region, human capital and …
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Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants' training before they migrate — linking skill creation and skill...
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As part of a larger research project, we survey existing data sets and research results on immigrants' integration success in Austria focusing on educational and labour market outcomes. We consider different registers as well as survey data available to researchers on a regular basis and compare...
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This paper presents a simple Chamberlinian agglomeration model which, like the canonical core-periphery (CP) model … complete agglomeration predicted by the CP model. …
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This paper presents a simple, analytically solvable Chamberlinian agglomeration model. As in the canonical core …
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, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …
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This paper estimates the multi-dimensional human capital endowments of immigrants by characterizing their occupational decisions. This approach allows for estimation of physical skill and cognitive ability endowments, which are difficult to measure directly. Estimation implies that immigrants as...
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Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …
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postulations of a WHO report on determinants of health-worker migration. …
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This paper examines three relevant hypotheses on the incidence of health worker migration on human development and …) migration for the continent, the subject matter has remained empirically void over the last decades despite the acute concern of …
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