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'educated unemployment' and overeducation in developing countries, as well as a brain drain from these countries. A simulation … suggests that the costs of 'educated unemployment' and overeducation can amount to significant losses for the individuals …
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; Human capital formation ; Overeducation ; “Educated unemployment” ; Beneficial brain drain ; Social welfare …
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This paper synthesizes and extends recent research on 'The New Economics of the Brain Drain.' In a unified framework, the paper shows that while recently identified adverse repercussions of the brain drain exacerbate the long-recognized negative impact of the brain drain, longer-term...
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This paper presents occupation-specific data on south-north migration around the year 2000 using employment data for developing sending and OECD receiving countries from ILO and OECD. These data reveal that the incidence of south-north migration was highest among professionals, one of the two...
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This paper provides a novel explanation of “educated unemployment,” which is a salient feature of the labor markets in … a number of developing countries. In a simple job-search framework we show that “educated unemployment” is caused by the … developing country may end up with more educated workers despite the brain drain and educated unemployment. -- International …
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"educated unemployment" and overeducation in developing countries, as well as a brain drain from these countries. A simulation … suggests that the costs of "educated unemployment" and overeducation can amount to significant losses for the individuals …
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We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the "beneficial brain drain hypothesis" in a...
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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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