. Education is an important investment therefore we use the results for 16 countries to test the positive relationship between … return to education and the risk involved in this investment. It seems that most of the countries fit the pattern well …

Highly-skilled migrants are becoming a more important part of the world economy and of policy debates in a diverse set … of countries. The proliferation of skills around the world, increases in world trade, the growth of R&D, and the general …

centuries. It begins with a review of the history of primarily trans-Atlantic migration to the New World during the period of … Oceania and from parts of Asia (primarily India, China and Japan) to other parts of Asia, Africa and the New World. World wars …, immigration restrictions and the Great Depression resulted in a period of low international migration (1913 to 1945). In the post-World …

common component, we find evidence for a ?world business cycle? as well as evidence for a distinct European common component …

mandatory education in the Jewish tradition (Botticini and Eckstein, 2001). We propose a supplementary explanation based on the …