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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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COVID-19, Working from Home and the Potential Reverse Brain Drain

Bakalova, Irina; Fidrmuc, Jan; Berlinschi, Ruxanda; … - 2021

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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Covid-19, Working from Home and the Potential Reverse Brain Drain

Bakalova, Irina; Berlinschi, Ruxanda; Fidrmuc, Jan; … - 2021

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Migration, Child Education, Human Capital Accumulation, and a Brain Dilution Tax

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2025

I study the effect of educational policy in the host economy on human capital accumulation and growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility. I show that providing additional free educational services for immigrant children can increase the...

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Student flows and migration : an empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Poutvaara, Panu - 2005

Using panel data for 78 countries of origin we examine the impact of student flows to the United States on subsequent migration there over the period 1971-2001. What we find is that the stock of foreign students is an important predictor of subsequent migration. This holds true whether or not...

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A note on brain gain and brain drain: Permanent migration and education policy

Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2010

In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in the first place. However, it induces the host...

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Endogenous skill formation and the source country effects of international labor market integration

Egger, Hartmut; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2007

With endogenous skills and given technology, labor market integration necessarily lowers welfare of the left-behind in a poor sending country, even if all agents face identical emigration probabilities. This is in sharp contrast to the case of exogenous skill supply.

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Academic Migration and Academic Networks: Evidence from Scholarly Big Data and the Iron Curtain

Kamel, Donia; Pollacci, Laura - 2023

migration. Academics in countries behind the Iron Curtain were strongly isolated from the rest of the world. This context poses … Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph, a scholarly big data source, mapping of academics' networks is possible and information … about the size and quality of their co-authorships, by location is achieved. Focusing on academics from Eastern Europe …

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Why Is the Roy-Borjas Model Unable to Predict International Migrant Selection on Education? Evidence from Urban and Rural Mexico

Leopold, Stefan; Ruhose, Jens; Wiederhold, Simon - 2023

The Roy-Borjas model predicts that international migrants are less educated than nonmigrants because the returns to education are generally higher in developing (migrant-sending) than in developed (migrant-receiving) countries. However, empirical evidence often shows the opposite. Using the case...

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International Migration of Skilled Workers with Endogenous Policies

Djajic, Slobodan; Michael, Michael S. - 2014

We study the interaction between the optimal immigration policy of a host country and education policy of a source country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and career opportunities at home and abroad. Greater...

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