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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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Migration and human capital in an endogenous fertility model
Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng - 2008
or decline due to a brain drain. Low skilled emigration leads to reversed results, while the overall impact on human … found that increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation, while low skilled … emigration induces higher population growth and a lower level of education. -- Migration ; Human capital ; Fertility …
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Why migrate : for study or for work?
Brezis, Elise S. - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-12
Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and presents a unified model, wherein the two migration...
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Chinaś overt economic rise and latent human capital investment : achieving milestones and competing for the top
Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
We provide an overview of China’s economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in GDP, albeit with a GDP per capita at the low level of a developing country. Its tremendous economic development has overlooked the growing social inequalities and rising...
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Human capital depletion, human capital formation, and migration : a blessing in a 'curse'?
Stark, Oded; Helmenstein, Christian; … - 1998
We specify conditions under which a strictly positive probability of employment in a foreign country raises the level of human capital formed by optimizing workers in the home country. While some workers migrate, "taking along" more human capital than if they had migrated without factoring in...
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Why migrate : for study or for work?
Brezis, Elise S. - 2016
Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and presents a unified model, wherein the two migration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523737
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A back-door brain drain
Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz - 2012
In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the average skill level in the home country. We analyze what appears to be the least threatening scenario from the point of view of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely,...
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Optimal Education Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in the Context of Brain Drain
Djajic, Slobodan - 2018
differential with destination countries is large, and when the emigration rate is relatively low.In contrast with the findings in … number of developing countries; they are equivalent to those under which an increase in emigration induces a net brain gain …
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Skill Development and Regional Mobility : Lessons from the Australia-Pacific Technical College
Clemens, Michael A. - 2014
Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants' training before they migrate — linking skill creation and skill...
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Mobility of students and quality of higher education : an empirical analysis of the "Unified Brain Drain" model
Brezis, Elise S.; Soueri, Ariel - 2013
Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the migration of individuals encompassing decisions already at the level of education. We present a "unified brain" drain model that incorporates the decisions of an...
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