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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011985775
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Chinaś overt economic rise and latent human capital investment : achieving milestones and competing for the top
Constant, Amelie; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
We provide an overview of China’s economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in GDP, albeit with a GDP per capita at the low level of a developing country. Its tremendous economic development has overlooked the growing social inequalities and rising...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008841915
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Human capital as engine of growth : the role of knowledge transfers in promoting balanced growth within and across countries
Ehrlich, Isaac; Pei, Yun - 2020
Unlike physical capital, human capital has both embodied and disembodied dimensions. It can be perceived of as skill and acquired knowledge, but also as knowledge spillover effects between overlapping generations and across different skill groups within and across countries. We illustrate the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201031
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Losing Our Minds? New Research Directions on Skilled Migration and Development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307430
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Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment
Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019
Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005874
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Guest-worker migration, human capital and fertility
Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011
This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274747
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Massive Migration and its Effect on Human Capital and Growth: The Case of Western Balkan and Central and Eastern European Countries
Landesmann, Michael; Mara, Isilda - 2016
income convergence of these countries. Our analysis supports the positive impact of low-skilled migration on the composition …We analyse the effect of massive migration particularly from the Western Balkans and the Central and Eastern European … of migration on human capital and on growth. An important driver of migration is chain migration, as well as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311513
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Firms Left Behind: Emigration and Firm Productivity
Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2017
This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm total factor productivity. We exploit time,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794154
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Hate is too great a burden to bear: Hate crimes and the mental health of refugees
Graeber, Daniel; Schikora, Felicitas - 2021
Against a background of increasing violence against non-natives, we estimate the effect of hate crime on refugees' mental health in Germany. For this purpose, we combine two datasets: administrative records on xenophobic crime against refugee shelters by the Federal Criminal Office and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520403
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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307889