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We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our … analysis is the recognition that for free trade, migration, or trade and migration to be adopted, the relevant policy must pass …
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source and five destination countries we find selective migration determined by relative anthropometric inequality in source …
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This work focuses on a temporary guest-worker-type migration of individuals from the middle class of the wealth …
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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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This paper reviews recent research regarding high-skilled migration. We adopt a data-driven perspective, bringing … together and describing several ongoing research streams that range from the construction of global migration databases, to the … legal codification of national policies regarding high-skilled migration, to the analysis of patent data regarding cross …
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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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migration costs, utilities and costs both depending on productivity. Three average social criteria are distinguished – national …
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country in a model of international migration of skilled workers. Acquisition of human capital is driven by the academic and …
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country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in … long as the permanent migration probability is not too large, this positive effect causes both aggregate and per …
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determinants influence international migration of workers to France with the same intensity across different skill levels and with … or without free mobility. We find that low-skill migrants respond to most push and pull migration factors. High …-skill migrants however respond only to financial incentives and cultural clustering does not matter. Migration policy is effective at …
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