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Cultural differences play an important role in shaping migration patterns. The conventional proxies for cross country cultural differences - such as common language, ethnicity, genetic traits or religion - implicitly assume that cultural proximity between two countries is constant over time and...
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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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We investigate emigrant self-selection according to institutional quality using up to 3,566 observations on bilateral migration flows from 77 countries over the 1990-2000 period. We relate these flows to differences in political and economic institutions. We improve and expand upon previous...
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on the emigration of doctors and engineers from developing countries. Others urge incentives to encourage skilled workers …
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This paper shows that trade and emigration of skilled workers from a poor country is complementary but that between … trade and emigration of unskilled workers is a substitute. The asymmetric effect of more openness to trade on the local … wage inequality as influenced by asymmetric emigration patterns. …
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using …
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analyze emigration from Denmark, which is one of the richest and most redistributive European Welfare States. Using … ; emigration ; redistribution ; brain drain ; education …
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or decline due to a brain drain. Low skilled emigration leads to reversed results, while the overall impact on human … found that increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation, while low skilled … emigration induces higher population growth and a lower level of education. -- Migration ; Human capital ; Fertility …
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to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the … large, not everyone migrates and many return. Within this group of highly skilled individuals the emigration decision is …
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