Search Results - subject:"LABOR MIGRATION"

Financing higher education and labor mobility

Demange, Gabrielle; Fenge, Robert; Uebelmesser, Silke - 2008

This paper analyzes how mobility of post-graduate skilled workers and students across different countries affects the quality level of higher education and the way education is financed. We start by examining a closed economy. In the presence of imperfect credit markets the education level with...

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Consumers and the brain drain: product design and the gains from emigration

Kuhn, Peter; McAusland, Carol - 2008

We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers' tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design of...

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Macroeconomic Consequences of Remittances

Fullenkamp, Connel; Cosimano, Thomas F.; Gapen, Michael T. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008

Given the large size of aggregate remittance flows (billions of dollars annually), they should be expected to have significant macroeconomic effects on the economies that receive them. This paper directly addresses the two main issues of interest to policymakers with regard to remittances--how...

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Financing Higher Education and Labor Mobility

Demange, Gabrielle; Fenge, Robert; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2008

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How Do Heterogeneous Social Interactions Affect the Peer Effect in Rural-Urban Migration?: Empirical Evidence from China

Chen, Zhao; Jiang, Shiqing; Lu, Ming; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University - 2008

In this paper, we use the "2002 Chinese Household Income Project Survey" (CHIP2002) data to examine how heterogeneous social interactions affect the peer effect in the rural-urban migration decision in China. We find that the peer effect, measured by the village migration ratio, significantly...

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Consumers and the Brain Drain: Product Design and the Gains from Emigration

Kuhn, Peter J.; McAusland, Carol - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

labor migration, product quality Corresponding author: Peter Kuhn Department of Economics University of California …

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How do Heterogeneous Social Interactions affect the Peer Effect in Rural-Urban Migration?:Empirical Evidence from China

Chen, Zhao; Jiang, Shiqing; Lu, Ming; Sato, Hiroshi - LICOS Centre for Institutions and Economic Performance, … - 2008

In this paper, we use the ?002 Chinese Household Income Project Survey?(CHIPS2002) data to examine how heterogeneous social interactions affect the peer effect in the rural-urban migration decision in China. We find that the peer effect, measured by the village migration ratio, significantly...

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Republic of Armenia; Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008

The key findings of Republic of Armeniaâ€™s Second Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper are reviewed. Macroeconomic and fiscal framework has been completely revised, taking into account the 2007 outcomes, tendencies developed during 2008, and challenges, particularly the projected increase of...

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The Nexus of Female Capital and Northâ€“South Labor Migration in Ghana

Tufeiru, Ahmed - In: Journal of Developing Societies 30 (2014) 1, pp. 91-114

results revealed that lack of access to capital is a major determinant in the labor migration decisions of female head porters … female labor migration that contributes to the head-load portage syndrome and the inherent degradation this occupation …

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Labor migration, externalities and ethics: Theorizing the meso-level determinants of HIV vulnerability

Hirsch, Jennifer S. - In: Social Science & Medicine 100 (2014) C, pp. 38-45

This paper discusses labor migration as an example of how focusing on the meso-level highlights the social processes … organization and HIV risk as well as research on labor migration and HIV vulnerabilities, the paper demonstrates how analyzing the … processes through which labor migration creates vulnerability can shift attention away from the proximate behavioral …

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