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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita … than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which …
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Comparing the emigration rates of countries at different stages of economic development, an inverse u-shape emerges … association between income and emigration. This result is independent of the level of income a country starts out at and thus …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large … literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita … than in either chronically poor countries or established rich countries. This suggests an emigration life cycle in which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825002
Cape Verde is a country prone to droughts with few natural resources and a significant emigration rate. However, the … decrease emigration? Or, are emigration and the remittances sent back to Cape Verde the best for a tiny nation that at times …
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Using a global panel on research and development (R&D) expenditures, this paper documents that on average poor countries do far less R&D than rich as a share of GDP. This is arguably counter intuitive since the gains from doing the R&D required for technological catch up are thought to be very...
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Rodrik (2016) pointed out that late industrializing countries are experiencing a lower peak at lower income levels in the manufacturing employment share hump-shaped path. The present study develops a theoretical model to analyze the dynamics of industrialization and deindustrialization in...
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The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly understood in developing ones despite the importance of these countries as immigrant destinations. We address this shortcoming by studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during...
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This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between … trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local … wage inequality as influenced by asymmetric emigration patterns. …
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on the emigration of doctors and engineers from developing countries. Others urge incentives to encourage skilled workers …
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consequences of emigration from developing countries and the motivations behind the restrictions imposed by the developed countries …
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