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Losses and gains to developing countries from the migration of educated workers: an overview of recent research, and new reflections

Stark, Oded (contributor); Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor) - 2007

; Human capital formation ; Overeducation ; “Educated unemployment” ; Beneficial brain drain ; Social welfare …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737692

The brain drain, "educated unemployment", human capital formation, and economic betterment

Stark, Oded (contributor); Fan, Chengze Simon (contributor) - 2007

“educated unemployment” and overeducation in developing countries, as well as a brain drain from these countries. A simulation … suggests that the costs of “educated unemployment” and overeducation can amount to significant losses for the individuals … drain ; Human capital formation ; “Educated unemployment” ; Overeducation ; Social welfare …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003737690

Migration to the EU : social and macroeconomic effects on sending countries

Kancs, D'Artis; Ciaian, Pavel; Kielyte, Julda - 2016

In June 2016, the European Commission issued a new EU Blue Card proposal. This proposal is meant to make the EU more attractive for highly qualified workers from third countries. While strengthening the knowledge economy of the EU, the potential impacts of the new Blue Card proposal on...

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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307889

Smart policy toward high-skill emigrants : many proposed policies on skilled migration do little to improve skill stocks or development outcomes, but promising options exist

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with preventing skilled workers from leaving poor countries, where their skills are needed. Some advocates urge restrictions or taxes on the emigration of doctors and engineers from...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433686

The impact of the EU Blue Card policy on economic growth in the African sending countries

Kancs, D'Artis; Ciaian, Pavel - 2010

In 2009 the EU adopted a new migration policy instrument - the Blue Cards (BC) - for attracting highly skilled workers to the EU. The present paper examines the potential impacts, which BC may cause on the less developed sending countries (LDC). According to the adopted framework of innovative...

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Job status, international migration and educational choice

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...

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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South

Rapoport, Hillel - 2018

Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...

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The gain from the drain : skill-biased migration and global welfare

Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzyński, Michał; Elsner, Benjamin - 2016

High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration - often called brain drain - has been at the center of a heated debate about the welfare consequences of emigration from developing countries. In this paper, we provide a global...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551902

Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017

This contribution investigates the opportunities of migration for developing countries. The benefits of migration for sending countries are often undervalued. But migrants may foster trade, remittances, innovations, investments back home, and even return home at some time with better human...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114016

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