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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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offers new hypotheses regarding the skill composition of emigration during the mobility transition. Skill … high-to-low skill emigration ratio. As SBTC eventually diffuses to the source economy, it also raises the relative return … to high skill investment there, and causes a decline in the high-to-low skill emigration ratio. Empirical evidence using …
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high rate of skilled and educated emigration …
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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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This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and …
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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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knowledge transfer. Given that the emigration of highly skilled affects human capital differently than knowledge capital …, addressing the adverse impacts of the most talented and highly skilled worker emigration efficiently, differentiated policies are …
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The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries - France, Germany and the United Kingdom - in the years 1994-2007. Unlike previous research, which...
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This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between … trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local … wage inequality as influenced by asymmetric emigration patterns. …
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Developing countries invest in training skilled workers and can lose part of their investment if those workers emigrate. One response is for the destination countries to design ways to participate in financing skilled emigrants' training before they migrate — linking skill creation and skill...
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