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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 : 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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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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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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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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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. However, while brain drain (BD) and gain (BG) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine...

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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …

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