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Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Simpson, Nicole B.; Sparber, Chad - In: Handbook of the economics of international migration : …, (pp. 3-51). 2015

This chapter provides a comprehensive expository survey and synthesis of the theoretical determinants of migration. Early work beginning with Adam Smith, running through the pioneering research of Larry Sjaastad in the 1960s, and continuing through the end of the twentieth century established...

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Migration and Human Capital

Hendricks, Lutz - 1998

Immigration in the United States is characterized by a number of empirical regularities. Immigrants cluster geographically and are often employed together. Immigrant earnings differ by origin, even after controlling for education and experience. A large fraction of immigrants eventually returns...

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A critical comparison of migration policies : entry fee versus quota

Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz; Casarico, Alessandra; … - 2017

We ask which migration policy a developed country will choose when its objective is to attain the optimal skill composition of the country's workforce, and when the policy menu consists of an entry fee and a quota. We compare these two policies under the assumptions that individuals are...

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A critical comparison of migration policies : entry fee versus quota

Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz; Casarico, Alessandra; … - 2017

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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of...

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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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Determinants of health professionals' migration in Africa

Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012

How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability, demographic change, democracy, corruption-control, press-freedom, government effectiveness, human development, foreign-aid, physical security, trade openness and financial liberalization play-out in the fight against...

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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 … argue with theory and a range of nonexperimental falsification tests that exit by skilled workers was a necessary causal …

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The economics of Canadian immigration levels

Doyle, Matthew; Skuterud, Mikal; Worswick, Christopher - 2023 - First draft: June 2023

In the hope of addressing chronic labour shortages and sluggish economic growth, the Canadian government plans to increase immigration in the coming years to per capita levels not reached since the 1920s. We argue that economic immigration in the Canadian context should aim to boost GDP per...

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International migration, imperfect information, and brain drain

Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - 2011

We consider a model of international migration where skills of workers are imperfectly observed by firms in the host country and where information asymmetries are more severe for immigrants than for natives. There are two stages. In the first one, workers in the South decide whether to move and...

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