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China's march to prosperity : reforms to avoid the middle-income trap
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Hill, Sam - 2013
China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010231008
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524082
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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
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Brain drain in globalization : a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860334
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Brain Drain in Globalization : A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective
Marchiori, Luca - 2013
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013095832
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784466
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Mobility of skilled labour and skill formation
Wolf, André-René - 2013
This work deals with the interplay of skilled worker emigration and school participation in small developing economies. We develop an Overlapping generations framework with talent heterogeneity, where agents make intertemporal decisions on schooling and emigration. The main innovation compared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764056
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The Five-Phases of Economic Development and Institutional Evolution in China and Japan
Aoki, Masahiko - 2012
economic development that are common to China, Japan and South Korean: M (Malthusian), G (government-led), K (a la Kuznets), H … agrarian origins of institutions in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan (and briefly Chosŏn Korea) and their path … institutional evolution between China and Japan, which also clarifies the simplicity of prevailing arguments that identify East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013114387
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The Five-Phases of Economic Development and Institutional Evolution in China and Japan
Aoki, Masahiko - 2012
five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan, and Korea: M (Malthusian), G (government-led), K (à la … explores the agrarian origins of institutions in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan (and briefly Chosŏn Korea) and their path … institutional evolution between China and Japan, which also clarifies the simplicity of prevailing arguments that identify East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112948
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Stature and Economic Development in South China, 1810-1880
Morgan, Stephen L. - 2010
Foreign influence on South China increasingly disrupted the economy from the late eighteenth century. Many scholars …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199755