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The international circulation of elites : knowledge, entrepreneurial and political
Solimano, Andrés; Avanzini, Diego - 2010
International migration analysis often focuses on mass migration rather than on the international mobility of elites, which is the focus of this paper. The paper offers a three-fold classification of elites: (a) knowledge elites, (b) entrepreneurial elites and (c) political elites. We explore...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697427
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Brain Drain and Institutions of Governance : Educational Attainment of Immigrants to the US 1988-1998
Bang, James T. - 2012
We investigate the impact of home country institutions on the skill level of immigrants to the United States over 1988-1998. Specifically, we explore the hypothesis that institutions are multidimensional and that the different dimensions have conflicting impacts on the migration of skilled...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109323
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Ethnicity and the immigration of highly skilled workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina (contributor) - 2009
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity -country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003796343
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Ethnicity and the Immigration of Highly Skilled Workers to the United States
Jasso, Guillermina - 2009
This paper examines ethnicity among highly skilled immigrants to the United States. The paper focuses on five classic components of ethnicity - country of birth, race, skin color, language, and religion - among persons admitted to legal permanent residence in the United States in 2003 in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765217
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The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest : evidence from the Pacific
Gibson, John K. (contributor);  … - 2009
A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794013
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Educational mismatch : are high-skilled immigrants really working at high-skilled jobs and the price they pay if they aren't?
Chiswick, Barry R.; Miller, Paul W. - 2009
high-skilled adult male native-born workers are also presented for comparison purposes. The results show that over-education … is widespread in the high-skilled US labor market, both for immigrants and the native born. The extent of over-education …. Indeed, in the first 10 to 20 years in the US years of over-education among high-skilled workers have a negative effect on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003872711
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Globalization, brain drain and development
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011
This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235188
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Northern Triangle Undocumented Migration to the United States
Carare, Alina; Koh, Catherine; Yakhshilikov, Yorbol - 2023
Undocumented migration from the Northern Triangle countries (El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras) to the United States has been steadily increasing over the past 30 years, accelerating at times. The paper investigates what factors could explain this fact, by estimating an investment decision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014257752
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Crossing the border : self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010
Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966975
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The impact of migration on family left behind : estimation in presence of intra-household selection of migrants
Murard, Elie - 2019
This paper reexamines the literature on the impact of migration on household members left behind at origin. The empirical problem previous studies address is the self-selection of households into migration, i.e. the endogenous decision as to whether or not send a migrant. Yet, the subsequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011974338