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Voluntary brain waste and the reservation wage of migrants : evidence from Austria and three CEE countries
Nowotny, Klaus - 2012 - Preliminary draft
Stylized facts show that migrants more often face overqualified employment than natives. As shown by previous research, one third of the employed foreign born with tertiary education in the EU-15 are overqualified, with levels reaching up to 57.6%, compared to 20.9% among natives. Among the...
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Brain drain or brain gain? : graduate student migration in old industrial regions : analysis of the Central Lower Rhine Area, Germany
Jaeger, Angelika; Kreutzer, Fabian - 2012
The influence of tertiary education on the economic development of a region is a topic of special interest and … direction of regional economic development. Especially the large number of highly-educated graduates is of eminent importance in … changes and market turmoil, and to face problematic trends as the forthcoming demographic development. The research aim of …
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Is higher education mobility a good investment for EU lagging regions? : the case of Master and Back, an active labour market policy co‐financed by the European Social Fund. : XII...
Orrù, Enrico - 2012
This research claims that investing European Union (EU) Structural Funds in Learning Mobility (LM) might lead to further regional polarization. LM is a type of labour mobility finalized to acquire new knowledge (human capital) and social networks (social capital). Historically, LM has been...
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Maids and school teachers : low skill migration and high skill labor supply
Freire, Tiago - 2010
Over the 40 years the pattern of migration has changed significantly with an increase in the share of female migrants, and especially low skill female migrants. These low skilled women migrants often work in the domestic service sector, a close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes...
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Distance is crucial, at least for neighbors : foreign employment at the district level
Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2015 - Preliminary draft, this version: July 31, 2015
We study the regional representation of foreign workers from each EU-27 country in German regions. For most of the German neighboring countries, we find that distance significantly matters for the workplace location in Germany. The striking exception is Poland. For non-neighboring countries,...
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Modelling migration and regional labour markets : an application of the new economic geography model RHOMOLOI
Brandsma, Andries; Kancs, D'Artis; Persyn, Damiaan - 2013
The present paper describes the modelling of regional labour markets in the newly developed dynamic spatial general equilibrium model RHOMOLO, where the labour market equilibrium is determined by firms' labour demand, a wage-curve determining unemployment, and interregional labour migration. The...
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Global competition for attracting talents and the world economy
Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 39 (2016) 4, pp. 530-542
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Revisiting the brain drain literature with insights from a dynamic general equilibrium world model
Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling - In: The world economy : the leading journal on … 39 (2016) 4, pp. 557-573
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A dynamic brain drain in peripheral regions
Malul, Miki - 2012
The aim of this research is to explore the effect of a lower return on education in peripheral regions of a country compared to core regions on the decision of individuals in each region to acquire human capital by advancing their education. In addition, the study examines how these decisions...
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Migration and agricultural efficiency : empirical evidence for Kosovo
Sauer, Johannes; Gorton, Matthew; Davidova, Sofia - In: Wie viel Markt und wie viel Regulierung braucht eine …, (pp. 95-106). 2014
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