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Smart policy toward high-skill emigrants : many proposed policies on skilled migration do little to improve skill stocks or development outcomes, but promising options exist
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
on the emigration of doctors and engineers from developing countries. Others urge incentives to encourage skilled workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433686
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775
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Firms left behind : emigration and firm productivity
Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2017
This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries …. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm … to 2014 as a source of exogenous variation in the emigration rates from new EU member states. We argue that a potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011781018
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003792879
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled … (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008907761
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled … (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009230198
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Emigration and Democracy
Docquier, Frédéric - 2015
emigration (as measured by the natives' average emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013634
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012615362
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Emigration and Democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011
emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled … (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177699
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Emigration and Democracy
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled … (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129925