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country with higher labour endowment. -- International Migration ; Remittances ; Migration Tax ; Oligopolistic Competition …Remittances are considered as an important component of GDP in many developing countries. In order to increase …
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We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human …
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A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: "established" migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …
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A migration network is modeled as a mutually beneficial cooperative agreement between financially …-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: "established" migrants … contract to support the subsequent migration of others in exchange for receiving support themselves. When the model is expanded …
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We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home … order to increase their chances of obtaining a job in the host country after migration. Thus, all home country students may … choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo …
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. -- Brain drain ; capital flow ; development ; human capital ; remittances …
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The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
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This paper develops a tractable, heterogeneous agents general equilibrium model where individuals have different endowments of the factors that complement the schooling process. The paper explores the relationship between inequality of opportunities, inequality of outcomes, and efficiency in...
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. Nonetheless, while BD has been studied extensively, AD drain has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h …), which combines PS and VS (e.g., Canada, 2015+). I find that i) Migration reduces (raises) source country residents …' (migrants') average ability and has an ambiguous (positive) impact on their average education and skill, with a net skill drain …
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recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the … countries combining low levels of human capital and low migration rates of skilled workers tend to be positively affected by the … brain drain. By contrast, the brain drain appears to have negative growth effects in countries where the migration rate of …
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