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Firms left behind : emigration and firm productivity

Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2017

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 total factor productivity. We exploit time,...

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Voluntary brain waste and the reservation wage of migrants : evidence from Austria and three CEE countries

Nowotny, Klaus - 2012 - Preliminary draft

Hungary. The survey was designed to identify migration and cross-border commuting intentions in these four countries and is … estimating migrants' reservation wages after migration. The theoretical and empirical models in this paper show that …

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Matching higher education offer with labour market needs till 2020 : the case of Lodzkie region

Arendt, Lukasz; Rzenca, Agnieszka - 2014

Transformation to post-industrial or knowledge-based economies causes changes in the structure of labour markets with growing demand on highly-qualified workforce. In XXI century human capital has become one of the most important production factors determining competitiveness and innovativeness...

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Returns to university quality in Australia : a two-stage analysis

Carroll, David; Heaton, Christopher; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014

This study investigates the relationship between university quality and graduate starting salaries using pooled Australian data from the Graduate Destination survey and a two-stage estimation methodology. The results suggest that average starting salaries for young undergraduates differ...

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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

This paper surveys the theoretical approaches used in the literature to study the phenomenon of delayed graduation and university dropout. The classical human capital model does not contemplate failure, which the amended human capital model does. Delayed graduation and university dropout are two...

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Delayed graduation and university dropout : a review of theoretical approaches

Aina, Carmen; Baici, Eliana; Casalone, Giorgia; … - 2019

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Taking the skill bias out of global migration

Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzynski, Michał; Elsner, Benjamin; … - 2018

Global migration is heavily skill-biased, with tertiary-educated workers being four times more likely to migrate than … workers with a lower education. In this paper, we quantify the global impact of this skill bias in migration. Based on a … the skill bias in migration, while a small number of sending countries is significantly worse off. The negative effect in …

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The returns to occupational foreign language use : evidence from Germany

Heidland, Tobias - 2013

This paper analyses the wage premia associated with workers' occupational use of foreign languages in Germany. After eliminating time-invariant unobserved heterogeneity and other confounding factors, sizable returns of about 10 percent to applying fluent English skills are found. Returns to...

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Occuptational choice across generations

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2004

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is …

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Occupational choice across generations

Constant, Amelie F.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003

There are few studies on occupational choices in Germany, and the second generation occupational choice and mobility is …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272294

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