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A note on brain gain and brain drain: Permanent migration and education policy

Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2010

country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in … long as the permanent migration probability is not too large, this positive effect causes both aggregate and per …

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International migration and "educated unemployment"

Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - 2006

perspective of international migration, that is, by the possibility of a 'brain drain.' In addition, the analysis shows that a …

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A simple model of brain circulation

Schmitt, Nicolas; Soubeyran, Antoine - 2005

This paper considers the allocation of two types of individuals differentiated by levels of talent within and between two countries when they choose to be workers or entrepreneurs. The equilibrium with international migrations requires both countries to be sufficiently different in talent...

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Optimal quota for sector-specific immigration

Mayr, Karin - 2008

Sectoral labor supply shortage is a cause of concern in many OECD countries and has raised support for immigration as a potential remedy. In this paper, we derive a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations, where natives require a compensating wage differential for working in one...

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A Note on the Redistributive Effect of Immigration

Euwals, Rob; Roodenburg, Hans - 2003

In this paper, we study gains and losses that accrue to natives because of immigration. The gain on the aggregated level is called the ?immigration surplus?, which can be seen as analogous to a consumer surplus. We derive changes in the earnings of native owners of production factors by...

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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt: Eine oekonomische Perspektive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country?s labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...

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Migration taxes and human capital formation: Some implications for development

Kar, Saibal - 2007

Use of migration tax as an instrument for financing development expenditure in poorer countries has received renewed … literature-one claims that lack of restriction on skill migration promotes human capital formation and the other, the more … formation and migration involve risk, we then explore a connection between imposition of migration tax, human capital formation …

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Families of copulas closed under the construction of generalized linear means

Klein, Ingo; Christa, Florian - 2011

We will identify sufficient and partly necessary conditions for a family of copulas to be closed under the construction of generalized linear mean values. These families of copulas generalize results well-known from the literature for the Farlie-Gumbel-Morgenstern (FGM), the Ali-Mikhai-Haq (AMH)...

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Referral-based job search networks

Dustmann, Christian; Glitz, Albrecht; Schönberg, Uta - 2011

This paper develops a model and derives novel testable implications of referral-based job search networks in which employees provide employers with information about potential job market candidates that they otherwise would not have. Using unique matched employer-employee data that cover the...

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Immigration und Arbeitsmarkt : eine ökonomische Perspektive

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 1998

Based on the current European discussion about immigration policy, this paper gives an overview of central economic consequences of immigration for a host country's labor market. The most important theoretical arguments are presented and evaluated against the available empirical evidence. The...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294532