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Bauer, Philipp; Sheldon, George - 2008

This paper investigates the role that discrimination plays in the educational marginalization of foreign youth commonly observed in European countries with a long guestworker tradition. Economic theory offers two basic explanations for discrimination of this form: taste-based discrimination...

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Motives and giving norms behind remittances : the case of Filipino overseas workers and their recipient households

Alba, Michael M.; Sugui, Jessaine Soraya C. - 2009

motives involving worker-household pairs. We find that altruism dominates the exchange motive among overseas workers who are … workers are likely to be secondary breadwinners, (a) household labor income is an endogenous explanatory variable and (b) the … error covariance of the household income and remittance selection equations is positive. A possible reason for (a) is that …

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Effektive Transfersicherung bei Weiterbildungsmaßnahmen am Beispiel der Stadtwerke Bielefeld GmbH

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Documenting the brain drain of "la crème de la crème" : three case-studies on international migration at the upper tail of the education distribution

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

Most of the recent literature on the effects of the brain drain on source countries consists of theoretical papers and cross-country empirical studies. In this paper we complement the literature through three case studies on very different regional and professional contexts: the African medical...