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Optimal education policy and human capital accumulation in the context of brain drain
Djajić, Slobodan; Docquier, Frédéric; Michael, Michael S. - 2018
This paper revisits the question of how brain drain affects the optimal education policy of a developing economy. Our framework of analysis highlights the complementarity between public spending on education and students' efforts to acquire human capital in response to career opportunities at...
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Expelling excellence : exchange visitor restrictions on high-skill migrants in the United States
Clemens, Michael A.; Neufeld, Jeremy; Nice, Amy M. - 2024
We examine a little-known restriction on high-skill immigration to the United States, the Exchange Visitor Skills List. This List mandates that to become eligible for long-term status in the U.S., certain high-skill visitors must reside in their home countries for two years after participation...
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Ability drain
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2015
Is ability drain (AD) economically significant? That immigrants or their children founded over 40% of the Fortune 500 US companies suggests it is. Moreover, brain drain (BD) induces a brain gain (BG). This cannot occur with ability. Nonetheless, while BD has been studied extensively, AD drain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011407693
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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
Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with preventing skilled workers from leaving poor countries, where their skills are needed. Some advocates urge restrictions or taxes on the emigration of doctors and engineers from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011433686
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'Brain Drain Competition' Policies in Europe : A Survey
Giannoccolo, Pierpaolo - 2012
To obtain the "1.2 million additional research personnel, including 700.000 additional researchers" necessary to "irrigate" the industries science-based, The EU stresses that it is not sufficient increase the investment in Research. We have to stop the European Brain Drain. We have to reverse...
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Brain Drain, Educational Quality and Immigration Policy : Impact on Productive Human Capital in Source and Host Countries, with Canada as a Case Study
Schiff, Maurice - 2014
With the 1967 reform, Canada's immigration policy changed from a country-preference system to a points system. The latter provides points according to applicants' education level but abstracts from the quality of their education. This paper considers the points system, the country-preference...
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Brain refrain and human capital formation in Spain
Blanco-Álvarez, Jose; Parsons, Christopher R.; Tang, … - 2022
We examine how low and high skilled internal emigration causally affect investments in human capital at origin. We provide theoretical and empirical evidence of a disincentive mechanism through which individuals refrain from education should low skilled emigration prove a viable alternative. Our...
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The Global Race for Talent : Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer, and Growth
Prato, Marta - 2022
How does inventors' migration affect international talent allocation, knowledge diffusion, and productivity growth? To … answer this question, I build a novel two-country innovation-led endogenous growth model, where heterogeneous inventors … productivity growth by 5%, but the latter dominates in the long run, lowering growth by 6%. On the migration policy side, doubling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014237763
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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014
This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and education decisions. We identify bilateral...
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