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The production and stock of college graduates for US states
Winters, John V. - 2014
educated workers are often quite mobile and there is a concern that public investments in college graduates may not benefit the … state if the college graduates leave the state after finishing their education. This paper examines the relationship between … the production of college graduates from a state and the stock of college graduates residing in the state using microdata …
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War and science in Ukraine
Ganguli, Ina; Waldinger, Fabian - 2023
We discuss the impacts of the Russian invasion on Ukrainian science. Using newly collected data, we show that the war has already had significant effects on science in Ukraine: research papers produced by Ukrainian scientists declined by about 10%, approximately 5% of the most prolific...
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Foreign and native-born STEM graduates and innovation intensity in the United States
Winters, John V. - 2014
This paper examines the effects of foreign- and native-born STEM graduates and non-STEM graduates on patent intensity … in U.S. metropolitan areas. I find that both native and foreign-born STEM graduates significantly increase metropolitan … area patent intensity, but college graduates in non-STEM fields have a smaller and statistically insignificant effect on …
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Endogenous Emigration of Skilled Labour
Bandyopadhyay, Debasis - 2017
There is an increasing trend in the pattern of world migration of educated and skilled individuals leaving developing countries for developed ones. This has created much concern about a so-called “brain drain”. As the name suggests, the brain drain was believed by early commentators to be...
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College openings and local economic development
Berlingieri, Francesco; Gathmann, Christina; … - 2022
the new college graduates, esp. in engineering professions. We find little impact on the low- or high-skilled service …
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Do earnings by college major affect graduate migration?
Winters, John V. - 2015
College graduates are considerably more mobile than non-graduates, and previous literature suggests that the difference … is at least partially attributable to college graduates being more responsive to employment opportunities in other areas … paper uses microdata from the American Community Survey to examine how the migration decisions of young college graduates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388103
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The portability of new immigrants' human capital : language, education and occupational matching
Goldmann, Gustave; Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - 2011
The implications of human capital portability - including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and post-immigration occupational matching - for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of occupation-specific skills, as a precursor we also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009157637
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The portability of new immigrants' human capital : language, education and occupational matching
Goldmann, Gustave; Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey - 2011
The implications of human capital portability - including interactions between education, language skills and pre- and post-immigration occupational matching - for earnings are explored for new immigrants to Canada. Given the importance of occupation-specific skills, as a precursor we also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310926
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Immigrant selection systems and occupational outcomes of international medical graduates in Canada and the United States
McDonald, James Ted; Warman, Casey; Worswick, Christopher - 2011
We analyze the process of immigrant selection and occupational outcomes of International Medical Graduates (IMGs) in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690559
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Human capital transmission and the earnings of second-generation immigrants in Sweden
Hammarstedt, Mats; Palme, Mårten - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 1 (2012), pp. 1-23
We compare the earnings and the intergenerational earnings mobility of immigrants with natives in Sweden. We find an overall convergence in average earnings between immigrants and natives across generations. This convergence hides a divergence in average earnings between groups of immigrants...
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