.S. immigrant workers and workers in their 42 home countries. The average price equivalent of migration barriers in this setting …

brain drain. By contrast, the brain drain appears to have negative growth effects in countries where the migration rate of …We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using … recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the …

A highly skilled immigration can be growth enhancing if the positive contribution of the imported brains to the host … growth depleting if the latter effect dominates. …

Empirical evidence on the relationship between a country?s wealth inequality and economic growth is ambiguous. This … distribution has for economic growth in a framework combining the Schumpeterian quality improvement model and the neoclassic … economic growth, but a decline in the population share of the poor enhances economic growth. This suggests that empirical …

higher growth of the experimental economy in the future. We find that trust is initially high in a treatment starting with …

In recent years there has been a growing interest in the impact of inequality on economic growth. Both theoretical and … part of the literature that considers inequality detrimental to growth, more recent studies have challenged this result and … found a positive effect of inequality on growth. This paper contributes to the debate by using meta-analytical techniques to …

, economic growth is very crucial. The responsiveness of growth towards poverty reduction is measured by the "growth elasticity … of poverty". The present study attempts to calculate growth elasticities of poverty in nine selected Asian countries for … finds that China hasthe highest growth elasticity of poverty considering the poverty line of USD 1.90 and USD 3.20 a day. It …

Poverty-growth elasticities are frequently calculated to provide insight into the inclusiveness of the growth process …. Mathematically, the formula employed to calculate the growth elasticity of poverty leads to lower values for higher initial poverty … and space. Poverty-growth semi-elasticities provide a more robust measure of the responsiveness of poverty to growth. …