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Docquier, Frédéric - 2015

emigration (as measured by the natives' average emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development …

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Human capital flight and output growth nexus : evidence from Nigeria

Adeosun, Oluyemi Theophilus; Popogbe, Oluwaseyi Omowunmi - In: Review of economics and political science : REPS 6 (2021) 3, pp. 206-222

Purpose Human capital flight from developing countries to developed nations has been rising and giving concerns to governments and scholars alike. This paper aims to explore the impact migration from Nigeria has on economic output growth by focusing on the migration rate, remittances, population...

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Emigration and Democracy

Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2011

emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries …. We find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. This implies that unskilled … (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality. Simulations show an impact of skilled …

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Emigration and Democracy

Docquier, Frédéric - 2011

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The International Migration of Knowledge Workers : When is Brain Drain Beneficial?

Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - 2021

We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge). We distinguish … between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a … country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for knowledge goods exhibit a kind of "home bias." In contrast to existing …

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Endogenous Emigration of Skilled Labour

Bandyopadhyay, Debasis - 2017

high rate of skilled and educated emigration …

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When the quality of a nation triggers emigration

Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Henkens, Kène - 2006

emigration intentions of native-born inhabitants of one industrialized country in particular: the Netherlands. To understand … emigration from high-income countries we focus not only on factors that refer to individual characteristics, but also on the …, etc. Based on data about the emigration intentions of the Dutch population collected during the years 2004-2005 we …

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Brain Drain, Brain Gain, and Economic Growth in China

Ha, Wei; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

This paper examines the effects of both permanent and temporary emigration on human capital formation and economic …. First, the fixed effects model is employed to estimate the effect of emigration on school enrollment rates in the source … emigration ratio) is conducive to the improvement of both middle and high schools enrollments. In contrast, the magnitude of …

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Why migrate : for study or for work?

Brezis, Elise S. - In: Economies : open access journal 4 (2016) 3, pp. 1-12

Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and presents a unified model, wherein the two migration...

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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development

Clemens, Michael A. - 2015

This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and …

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