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High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … bias in migration significantly increases welfare in most receiving countries. Moreover, due to a more efficient global … that more – not less – high-skilled migration would increase world welfare …
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We analyze the effects of football player migration to foreign leagues on the performance of their home country … national teams. We provide a theoretical model predicting a positive effect of migration on international football performance … migrating players, we construct a weighted migration index that takes into account the quality of the foreign league and the …
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In the final years of the twentieth century, brain drain, skills shortages and lack of career opportunities have become issues of major concern for policy-makers concerned with R&D in government, academia, and industry. Labour mobility across political borders, especially among highly skilled...
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a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the education … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …
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effect, differential fertility effect and tradability effect. Finally, we consider the migration dimension and discuss two …
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extends a theoretical model of optimal human capital investment before and after migration to shed new light on the emigration …
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We develop a model of directed technology adoption, frictional unemployment, and migration to examine the effects of a …
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This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states' overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...
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This paper examines the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion on TFP growth in small and large states in the South. The main findings are: i) TFP growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion, with education, and with the interaction between the two, and...
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