This article analyzes the effect of population sorting on economic growth. The analysis is performed in a two-region growth model with endogenous fertility, in which public knowledge spillovers from the more advanced core into children’s human capital accumulation function in the periphery are...

Human capital represents the source of competitive advantage of a firm. The importance of human capital is acknowledged by firms. However, in an increasingly complex and turbulent environment many organizations face a lot of issues regarding the attraction, retaining and development of their...

Recently, the EU Council adopted a new labour migration policy instrument - the EU Blue Cards (BC) - for attracting the highly skilled workers to the EU. The present paper examines the potential impacts, which BC may cause on less developed sending countries (LDC). Our results suggest that the...