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, which followed the pre-existing patterns of Eastern German immigration immediately after WWII. We construct a Manpower …, European, and Asian firms. Our results help inform relevant debates such as the reform of immigration policies and the …
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We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...
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-skilled labor, leading many European economists to argue for an immigration policy directed at actively recruiting highly qualified … workers from abroad. It has further been argued that an immigration policy that is tailored to attract young and economically …, the paper discusses expectations on future migration flows and the policy options of immigration countries for dealing …
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. However, the growth impact of immigration is small even in countries that have highly selective migration policies. …
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This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native-born and foreign-born by skill level. Specifically, after introducing...
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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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This paper studies the growth dynamics of a developing country under migration. Assuming that human capital formation is subject to a strong enough, positive intertemporal externality, the prospect of migration will increase growth in the home country in the long run. If the external effect is...
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. However, the growth impact of immigration is small even in countries that have highly selective migration policies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020582
This paper offers a reappraisal of the impact of migration on economic growth for 22 OECD countries between 1986-2006 and relies on a unique data set we compiled that allows us to distinguish net migration of the native-born and foreign-born by skill level. Specifically, after introducing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042967