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Who leaves and who returns? : Deciphering immigrant self-selection from a developing country
Akee, Randall (contributor) - 2007
immigration studies have overemphasized the role played by differences in the distributions of countries' wages and skills … characteristics. -- Immigration ; developing country ; self-selection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656897
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Three essays in economic development : lessons from three small indigenous nations
Akee, Randall - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965037
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Occupation-specific south-north migration
Heuer, Nina - 2010
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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Who Leaves and Who Returns? Deciphering Immigrant Self-Selection from a Developing Country
Akee, Randall - 2021
immigration studies have overemphasized the role played by differences in the distributions of countries' wages and skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325189
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"Brain gain" on Wikipedia : immigrants return knowledge home
Slivko, Olga - 2018
Economic literature acknowledges the impact of immigration on cross-border patenting and scientific publications …. However, the role of immigration ows in the dissemination of knowledge in a broader sense is yet to be assessed. In this paper …, I estimate the effect of immigration on the facilitation of online knowledge reagrding destination countries in the …
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Who leaves? : deciphering immigrant self-selection from a developing country
Akee, Randall - In: Economic development and cultural change 58 (2009/10) 2, pp. 323-344
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The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest: evidence from the Pacific
Gibson, John; McKenzie, David - 2009
A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269137
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The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest : evidence from the Pacific
Gibson, John K. (contributor);  … - 2009
A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003794013
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Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions
Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010
Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269810
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South-South Migration : The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigrants on Earnings, Inequality and Poverty in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H. - 2021
More than half of those who emigrate from developing countries move to other developing countries, yet there have been few studies of the impact of this South-South migration. In this paper, we examine the impact of migration from one developing country, Nicaragua, on the labor market in another...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325180