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Ability Drain: Size, Impact, and Comparison with Brain Drain under Alternative Immigration Policies

Schiff, Maurice - 2017

) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human …, and b) the 'vetting' system (VS) which accounts for s (e.g., US H-1B program). Findings are: i) Migration reduces (raises …

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Human Capital Investment under Exit Options: Evidence from a Natural Quasi-Experiment

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...

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Migration and Macroeconomic Performance in New Zealand: Theory and Evidence

Fry, Julie - 2014

New Zealand immigration policy settings are based on the assumption that the macroeconomic impacts of immigration may be significantly positive, with at worst small negative effects. However, both large positive and large negative effects are possible. Reviewing the literature, the balance of...

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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 …

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Migration, transfers and child labor

Dimova, Ralitza; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2015

We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the ability to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999, 2000) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how hiring labor from outside the household...

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Massive Migration and its Effect on Human Capital and Growth: The Case of Western Balkan and Central and Eastern European Countries

Landesmann, Michael; Mara, Isilda - 2016

income convergence of these countries. Our analysis supports the positive impact of low-skilled migration on the composition …We analyse the effect of massive migration particularly from the Western Balkans and the Central and Eastern European … of migration on human capital and on growth. An important driver of migration is chain migration, as well as the …

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Can there be too much information? Heterogeneous responses to information on benefits from language proficiency

Könings, Fabian - 2021

Immigrants who have a better command of the host country's language are more likely to be employed and earn higher wages. Using a survey experiment among international students in Germany, I investigate whether information on the monetary benefits of mastering the language of the host country...

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Macroeconomic Instability, Migration, and the Option Value of Education

Katz, Eliakim; Rapoport, Hillel - 2001

context of migration. Specifically, we show that if migration is a possibility, such variability in the rate of return to … in a developing economy even after expected migration is netted out. Finally, our findings are shown to have explanatory …

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Firms Left Behind: Emigration and Firm Productivity

Giesing, Yvonne; Laurentsyeva, Nadzeya - 2017

This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm total factor productivity. We exploit time,...

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Gender, educational attainment, and the impact of parental migration on children left behind

Antman, Francisca M. - 2012

Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact … siblings' ages at the time of parental migration. The basic assumption underlying the analysis is that parental migration will … educations. Their younger siblings, in contrast, may still be in school, and thus will be affected by the parental migration …

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