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Migration for development : from challenges to opportunities
Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2017
even return home at some time with better human capital. Functioning diasporas can lead to stable factors of development …. Policies in receiving developed countries towards migrants can enhance the positive impact of migration for development. Among … an effective development policy. …
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Diaspora externalities
Rapoport, Hillel - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 10 (2019) 2/5, pp. 1-26
This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development …
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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South
Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
externality. This paper reviews the recent economic literature on diaspora networks and development from the perspective of the …
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Expelling excellence : exchange visitor restrictions on high-skill migrants in the United States
Clemens, Michael A.; Neufeld, Jeremy; Nice, Amy M. - 2024
development. It is misdirected because, as we show, the stringency of the List bears an erratic and even counterproductive … relationship to the development level of the targeted countries. The List is also opaque: there have been no public estimates of …, balancing the national interest with evidence-based support for overseas development. …
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The effect of high-skilled emigration, foreign direct investment, and policy on the growth rate of source countries : a panel analysis
Kim, Jisong; Lee, Nah Youn - In: East Asian economic review 20 (2016) 2, pp. 229-275
We study the effect of the high-skilled emigration rate on the growth rate of the source countries. We incorporate the foreign direct investment and the policy variables into the panel model and also their interactions with the high-skilled emigration rate, as they are related to the network...
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Ability drain
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2015
Is ability drain (AD) economically significant? That immigrants or their children founded over 40% of the Fortune 500 US companies suggests it is. Moreover, brain drain (BD) induces a brain gain (BG). This cannot occur with ability. Nonetheless, while BD has been studied extensively, AD drain...
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Ability drain : size, impact, and comparison with brain drain under alternative immigration policies
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2017
Ability drain's (AD) impact seems economically significant, with 30% of US Nobel laureates since 1906 being immigrants, and immigrants or their children founding 40% of Fortune 500 companies. Nonetheless, while brain drain (BD) and gain (BG) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine...
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Benefits and costs of brain and ability drain
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2024
Ability drain's (𝐴𝐷) impact on host countries is significant: 30 percent of US Nobel laureates since 1906 are immigrants, and they or their children founded 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies. The article first provides a detailed description of the multiple home country benefits...
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Benefits and costs of brain and ability drain
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2024
Ability drain's (AD) impact on host countries is significant: 30 percent of US Nobel laureates since 1906 are immigrants, and they or their children founded 40 percent of Fortune 500 companies. However, while brain drain (BD) and gain (BG) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015044971
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The gain from the drain : skill-biased migration and global welfare
Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzyński, Michał; Elsner, Benjamin - 2016
High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration - often called brain drain - has been at the center of a heated debate about the welfare consequences of emigration from developing countries. In this paper, we provide a global...
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