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Dustmann, Christian - 2015

Many migrations are temporary – a fact that has often been ignored in the economic literature on migration. Such omission may be serious in that expected migration temporariness can impart a distinct dynamic element to immigrants' economic behavior, generating possible consequences for...

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A Global Assessment of Human Capital Mobility : The Role of Non-OECD Destinations

Artuc, Erhan - 2015

Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the first time, a global overview of human capital mobility through bilateral migration stocks by...

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A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain

Docquier, Frédéric; Lowell, B. Lindsay; Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2021

This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. We use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of...

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Educating in the East, emigrating to the West?

Kancs, D'Artis; Kielyte, Julda - 2010

This paper examines the potential impacts of East-West migration of talents on the innovative capital and hence the long-run growth prospects in Eastern sending countries. Complementing previous studies, we examine the impact of high skill migration not only on the formation of human capital,...

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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration

Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014

This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases by …

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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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Selective migration and economic development : a generalized approach

Cha'Ngom, Narcisse; Deuster, Christoph; Docquier, Frédéric - 2023

of the world population living in extreme poverty. …

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Free Trade in Labour : A New Global Space for Workers' Rights?

Di Lieto, Giovanni - 2015

This paper focuses on the nexus between international labour standards and international trade governance, as labour rights provisions (applicable to both local and migrant workers) are increasingly being included in free trade agreements. Nevertheless, for the past few decades, the preservation...

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Ability drain

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2015

Is ability drain (AD) economically significant? That immigrants or their children founded over 40% of the Fortune 500 US companies suggests it is. Moreover, brain drain (BD) induces a brain gain (BG). This cannot occur with ability. Nonetheless, while BD has been studied extensively, AD drain...

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Parents, Schools and Human Capital Differences Across Countries

de Philippis, Marta; Rossi, Federico - 2017

Results from international standardized tests show large cross-country differences in students' performances. Where do these gaps come from? This paper argues that differences in cultural environments and parental inputs may be of great importance. We show that the school performance of...

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