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Population ageing affects most countries, especially developed ones. The elderly have increased in number as a result of increased longevity and a parallel decline in fertility. This phenomenon is placing an increasing burden on the young to finance intergenerational transfers to the old, which...
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Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the … large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross …-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration …
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endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some … ; migration …
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Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and … presents a unified model, wherein the two migration decisions are combined into a single, unique model. This paper shows that …
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of migration in alleviating information imperfections between home and host countries. We show that the impact of … migration on financial flows is strongest where information problems are more acute (that is, for more informational sensitive … information in generating home-bias and as new evidence of the role of migration in reducing information frictions between …
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Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to … analyze the migration of individuals encompassing decisions already at the level of education. We present a "unified brain …" drain model that incorporates the decisions of an individual related to migration vis‐à‐vis both education and work. In the …
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and migration. We examine the specific link between the acquisition of high levels of human capital in the form of … university education in Turkey and migration to Germany. We implement bounds testing procedures to ascertain the long …-run relationships with the variables of interest in a migration model. Although the bounds testing procedure has advantages compared to …
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