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Migration Selectivity and the Evolution of Spatial Inequality
Kanbur, Ravi; Rapoport, Hillel - 2004
migration a force for both divergence and convergence, and characterizes where each set of forces dominates. Finally, it … explores the consequences for convergence of combining both migration selectivity and agglomeration effects arising from …The basic neoclassical model of migration suggests that migration is induced by real income differentials across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013204743
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Migration Selectivity and the Evolution of Spatial Inequality
Kanbur, Ravi; Rapoport, Hillel - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2004
migration a force for both divergence and convergence, and characterizes where each set of forces dominates. Finally, it … explores the consequences for convergence of combining both migration selectivity and agglomeration effects arising from …The basic neoclassical model of migration suggests that migration is induced by real income differentials across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008478917
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Income Growth and Mobility of Rural Households in Kenya: Role of Education and Historical Patterns in Poverty Reduction
Mathenge, Mary K.; Tschirley, David L. - 2007
and allow convergence of incomes towards their average. This indicates the potential role of education in not only …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009444927
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WHY IS AGRICULTURAL LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY HIGHER IN SOME COUNTRIES THAN OTHERS?
Gutierrez, Luciano - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2000
evidence of conditional convergence, which means that cross-country agricultural productivity does not converge to the same …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005320438
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Income Growth and Mobility of Rural Households in Kenya: Role of Education and Historical Patterns in Poverty Reduction
Mathenge, Mary K.; Tschirley, David L. - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2007
Replaced with revised version of paper 07/26/07.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005803207
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Overlapping
Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 2002
We propose a new microeconomic explanation for the divergent experiences of economies in forming human capital. We suggest that the positive effect of a longer life expectancy on human capital formation arises from two separate effects: a life expectancy effect and a prolonged intergenerational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577711
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The impact of increased school : enrollment on economic growth in Tanzania
Seebens, Holger; Wobst, Peter - 2003
Failure to accumulate human capital is one of the pressing problems of developing countries. Lacking human capital formation bears consequences on an economy wide level, since education contributes to labor productivity. We examine the impact of increased school enrollment with regard to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145576
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A back-door brain drain
Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Rheinische … - 2012
In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the … of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely, migration exclusively by unskilled workers. Somewhat surprisingly … accumulate more human capital than before the opening up to migration of unskilled workers, the number and share of skilled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879141
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Integration as a catalyst for assimilation
Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Rheinische … - 2013
We draw a distinction between the social integration and economic assimilation of migrants, and study an interaction between the two. We define social integration as blending into the host country’s society, and economic assimilation as acquisition of human capital that is specific to the host...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010879142
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Socially gainful gender quotas
Stark, Oded; Hyll, Walter - Zentrum für Entwicklungsforschung (ZEF), Rheinische … - 2014
We study the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital. We assume that individuals’ formation of human capital is influenced by the prospect of landing high-pay top positions, and that these positions are regulated by gender-specific quotas. In the absence of quotas, women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010910224