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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...
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Human capital flight and output growth nexus : evidence from Nigeria
Adeosun, Oluyemi Theophilus; Popogbe, Oluwaseyi Omowunmi - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 6 (2021) 3, pp. 206-222
Purpose Human capital flight from developing countries to developed nations has been rising and giving concerns to governments and scholars alike. This paper aims to explore the impact migration from Nigeria has on economic output growth by focusing on the migration rate, remittances, population...
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The effects of immigration in a developing country : Brazil in the age of mass migration
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Papadia, Andrea; Zimran, Ariell - 2024
The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly … studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … benefits from the widely recognized value of historical perspective in studies of the effects of immigration. But unlike …
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Freedom of movement for workers : relaxing immigration restrictions could greatly improve the well-being of people in developing countries, with little effect on wages
Kennan, John - 2014
where they can be more productive. Yet immigration laws severely constrain such movement. …
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Will skill-based immigration policies lead to lower remittances? : an analysis of the relations between education, sponsorship, and remittances
Mukhopadhyay, Sankar; Zou, Miaomiao - 2018
results suggest that skill-based immigration policies are likely to result in more remittances. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798154
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South-South migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic
Hiller, Tatiana; Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol - 2020
We study the effects of female immigration on the labor supply of Dominican-born women of different educational levels … settlements together with time variation in female immigration inflows, we find that female immigration is associated with a …
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The emigration life cycle: how development shapes emigration from poor countries
Clemens, Michael A. - 2020
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...
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The Effects of Immigration in a Developing Country : Brazil in the Age of Mass Migration
Escamilla-Guerrero, David; Papadia, Andrea; Zimran, Ariell - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
The effects of immigration are reasonably well understood in developed countries, but they are far more poorly … studying the effects of immigration to Brazil during the Age of Mass Migration on its agricultural sector in 1920. This context … benefits from the widely recognized value of historical perspective in studies of the effects of immigration. But unlike …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468282
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Chapter 66. International Migration and the Developing World
Hanson, Gordon H. - In: Handbook of development economics : volume 5, (pp. 4363-4414). 2010
on immigration. My aim is to identify facts about international migration relevant to those concerned about why labor …
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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...
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