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Selective Migration and Economic Development: A Generalized Approach
Cha'Ngom, Narcisse; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2023
International migration is a selective process that induces ambiguous effects on human capital and economic development … and human capital accumulation in a multi-country context. We then embed this migration-education nexus into a development … accounting framework to quantify the effects of migration on development and inequality. We find that selective emigration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377125
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The Within-Country Distribution of Brain Drain and Brain Gain Effects: A Case Study on Senegal
Bocquier, Philippe; Cha'Ngom, Narcisse; Docquier, Frédéric - 2023
educational opportunities. These results extend to internal migration, implying that highly vulnerable populations are trapped in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469661
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A second look at enrollment changes after the Kalamazoo Promise
Hershbein, Brad J. - 2013
While previous research has documented how the Kalamazoo Promise, the most prominent and generous place-based college scholarship program, increased enrollment in Kalamazoo Public Schools, this paper qualifies and quantifies the characteristics of students who were induced to enter - or stay -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369443
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The role of unemployment and job change when estimating the returns to migration
Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2020
Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518510
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A second look at enrollment changes after the Kalamazoo Promise
Hershbein, Brad - 2013
While previous research has documented how the Kalamazoo Promise, the most prominent and generous place-based college scholarship program, increased enrollment in Kalamazoo Public Schools, this paper qualifies and quantifies the characteristics of students who were induced to enter - or stay -...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009761368
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The role of unemployment and job change when estimating the returns to migration
Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2020
Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012294811
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The role of unemployment and job change when estimating the returns to migration
Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2019
Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, this paper focuses on pre-migration employment dynamics … market outcomes, with a large drop in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable … positive earnings and employment gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The size of the gains varies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012139544
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Immigration Policies and the Ecuadorian Exodus
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2010
Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe … Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a careful description of the main characteristics of migration flows … countries, and attempt to reconcile the features of migration flows with our predictions for earnings by destination. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317970
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A Second Look at Enrollment Changes after the Kalamazoo Promise
Hershbein, Brad J. - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2013
While previous research has documented how the Kalamazoo Promise, the most prominent and generous place-based college scholarship program, increased enrollment in Kalamazoo Public Schools, this paper qualifies and quantifies the characteristics of students who were induced to enter—or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010671694
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The role of unemployment and job change when estimating the returns to migration
Emmler, Julian; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2020
Estimating the returns to migration from East to West Germany, we focus on pre-migration employment dynamics, earnings … in earnings and employment during the last few months before migration. We find sizeable positive earnings and employment … gains of migration both in comparison to staying or job change. The gains vary considerably with pre-migration earnings and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012389879