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, 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. …
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High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration … bias in migration significantly increases welfare in most receiving countries. Moreover, due to a more efficient global … that more - not less - high-skilled migration would increase world welfare. …
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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 …
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view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …
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) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human ….g., US H-1B program). Findings are: i) Education increases with ability; ii) Migration reduces (raises) residents' (migrants …
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endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some …
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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
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In this paper we develop a neoclassical growth model that aggregates different types of labor skills from strict complementarity to perfect substitution. After having derived general balanced growth conditions and developed explicit growth paths for capital and aggregate labor force, the model...
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This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …
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to acquire skills by home residents. This paper takes a further look at the link between skilled migration, education …, and remittances. It finds little support for the revisionist approach. First, a higher skilled content of migration is … composition of migration has a positive effect on the educational achievements in the home country. …
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