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on the emigration of doctors and engineers from developing countries. Others urge incentives to encourage skilled workers …
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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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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 …
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We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish … between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a … country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for knowledge goods exhibit a kind of "home bias." In contrast to existing …
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emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand … emigration from high-income countries we focus not only on factors that refer to individual characteristics, but also on the …, etc. Based on data about the emigration intentions of the Dutch population collected during the years 2004-2005 we …
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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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This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and …
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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/10012927105
This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding...
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This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the legal codification of national policies regarding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315471