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Brain drain and its determinants: a major issue for small states

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states' overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...

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Guest-worker migration, human capital and fertility

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2011

This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth distribution. The article demonstrates that the possibility of a lowskilled guest-worker employment in a higher wage foreign country lowers the relative attractiveness of the skilled...

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China's overt economic rise and latent human capital investment: Achieving milestones and competing for the top

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, … - 2010

We provide an overview of China's economic rise through time. Over the past decade, China has maintained 10% growth in GDP, albeit with a GDP per capita at the low level of a developing country. Its tremendous economic development has overlooked the growing social inequalities and rising...

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China's latent human capital investment: Achieving milestones and competing for the top

Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, … - 2011

In this paper we provide an overview of China's human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China's notable achievements in education as well as its...

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African Migration to Europe: Obscured Responsibilities and Common Misconceptions

Kohnert, Dirk - 2007

The number of migrants from conflict regions in Africa has been increasing dramatically. The European Union shares dual … of the underlying factors for politically motivated migration. Second, the EU contributed to Africa's economic misery due … Regime sind in Afrika heute noch spürbar; sie bilden einen wesentlichen Faktor politisch motivierter Emigration. Zweitens hat …

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Brain drain and development traps

Bénassy, Jean-Pascal; Brézis, Elise S. - 2011

This paper links the two fields of 'development traps' and 'brain drain'. We construct a model which integrates endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some underdevelopment traps: an economy starting with a low level of...

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Brain drain or brain gain? Micro evidence from an African success story

Batista, Cátia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2007

Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde - the African country with the largest fraction of tertiary educated population...

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Brain drain in globalization: a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective

Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 2009

The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...

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Testing the 'brain gain' hypothesis: Micro evidence from Cape Verde

Batista, Cátia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2010

allegedly the highest 'brain drain' in Africa, despite a marked record of income and human capital growth in recent decades. Our …

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Konsekwencje migracji wysoko wykwalifikowanego kapitału ludzkiego dla krajów wysyłających i migrantów na przykładzie personelu medycznego

Makulec, Agnieszka - 2013

This paper presents theoretical background for studying consequences of highly-skilled migration for individual and aggregated human capital. Contrary to the brain drain discussion, which stresses the loss for the sending countries resulting from the outflow of specialists abroad, the paper...

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