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educational opportunities. These results extend to internal migration, implying that highly vulnerable populations are trapped in …
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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 …
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) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human ….g., US H-1B program). Findings are: i) Education increases with ability; ii) Migration reduces (raises) residents' (migrants …
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outdated because it fails to reflect modern economic research on the complex effects of skilled migration on overseas …
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gain (𝐵𝐺) have been studied extensively while 𝐴𝐷 has not, I examine migration's impact on ability (𝑎) as well as on …; ii) Migration reduces (raises) home country residents' (migrants') average ability, with an ambiguous (positive) impact … fraction of our estimate. Thus, in order to correctly assess the impact of skilled migration, home and host countries …
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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 wages seems to be crucial in driving such results. The...
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This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development … global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora networks on core globalization outcomes such as trade, foreign … diaspora, investigating the impact of emigration on the formation of political attitudes, fertility behavior, and other aspects …
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the diaspora, investigating on a macro-level the role of migration in cultural convergence across countries and on a micro …Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage … externality. This paper reviews the recent economic literature on diaspora networks and development from the perspective of the …
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