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Sorting of high-ability workers is a main source of urban-rural disparities in economic outcomes. Less is known about when such human capital sorting occurs and who it involves. Using data on 15 cohorts of university graduates in Sweden, we demonstrate significant sorting to urban regions on...
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Immigration officials in rich countries are being asked to become overseas development officials, charged with preventing skilled workers from leaving poor countries, where their skills are needed. Some advocates urge restrictions or taxes on the emigration of doctors and engineers from...
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's migration behavior at the global level. Using the individual-level survey data from Gallup World Poll across 139 countries over … migration, although budgetary constraints may prevent youth from transforming their migration desires into actual plans in low … turned into more concrete plans. Finally, this study shows that while youth's and adults' migration propensities are often …
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This chapter addresses the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in relation to temporary migration policy. It … countries accept the importance of temporary migration as a necessary element to become more competitive in a knowledge …-based society. In the European Union (EU), for example, a new global approach is needed so that migration strikes the right balance …
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effects of skilled migration. It then proposes a new kind of ex ante public-private agreement to link skill formation and … skilled migration for the mutual benefit of origin countries, destination countries, and migrants: ‘Global Skill Partnerships … design lessons from related initiatives around the world. …
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The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a substantial increase in the prevalence of working from home among white-collar occupations. This can have important implications for the future of the workplace and quality of life. We discuss an additional implication, which we label reverse brain drain: the...
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may lead to higher skilled emigration. A regression model that accounts for the time-varying definition of migration and …
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in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations. This will induce her to invest more in the … given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population … is higher if we allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia to demonstrate that a …
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