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We analyze the internal mobility of university graduates in Switzerland. An empirically interesting question because not all the cantons have a university and therefore in some cantons students have to leave their home for studying but all the cantons have to bear the public costs for studying...
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highly qualified workers - are overblown and that student migration can positively affect economic growth in both sending and …
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origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …
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We follow the migration patterns of European inventors and find evidence of a novel emigration determinant: policy …
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accumulate over a five year period following migration, during which migrants experience superior wage growth vis-a-vis non …-migrants. Fixed-effects estimates suggest that migrants collect a post-migration wage premium of nearly 5 percent. Because fixed …-effects estimation accounts for correlation between migration and unobservable individual-specific characteristics (typically referred to …
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human capital theory. Instead, we propose a simple dynamic extension of the Roy model, where worker migration and wages are …
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mobility in the former socialist countries in Europe, especially in South Eastern Europe, in the period before and after the …
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are only a few of the factors influencing net migration in Europe. Based on a set of socio-economic indicators for EU … the geographical position within Europe, but the trends in net migration flows during the years. Therewith, the results …During the past decade, Europe was confronted with major changes and events offering large opportunities for mobility …
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In this paper, we attempt to understand the determinants of mobility by introducing the concept of local social capital. Investing in local ties is rational when workers anticipate that they will not move to another region. Reciprocally, once local social capital is accumulated, incentives to...
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