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What Affects International Migration of European Science and Engineering Graduates?

de Grip, Andries - 2009

hardly affect the migration decision. When analysing country choice, countries such as the USA, Canada and Australia appear …

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Skilled Migration Policy and the Labour Market Performance of Immigrants

Tani, Massimiliano - 2018

influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late … 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of Migrants to Australia. The statistical techniques employed in the …

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China's Latent Human Capital Investment : Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Constant, Amelie - 2011

In this paper we provide an overview of China's human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two … decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China's notable … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally …

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Air Pollution Quotas and the Dynamics of Internal Skilled Migration in Chinese Cities

Yu, Bo - 2020

This paper examines the role of a sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions quota introduced as part of China's 11th Five …

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Brain Refrain and Human Capital Formation in Spain

Blanco-Álvarez, Jose; Parsons, Christopher R.; Tang, … - 2022

We examine how low and high skilled internal emigration causally affect investments in human capital at origin. We provide theoretical and empirical evidence of a disincentive mechanism through which individuals refrain from education should low skilled emigration prove a viable alternative. Our...

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International Emigrant Selection on Occupational Skills

Patt, Alexander - 2017

We present the first evidence that international emigrant selection on education and earnings materializes through occupational skills. Combining novel data from a representative Mexican task survey with rich individual-level worker data, we find that Mexican migrants to the United States have...

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The Gain from the Drain : Skill-Biased Migration and Global Welfare

Biavaschi, Costanza - 2016

High-skilled workers are four times more likely to migrate than low-skilled workers. This skill bias in migration – often called brain drain – has been at the center of a heated debate about the welfare consequences of emigration from developing countries. In this paper, we provide a global...

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Beneficial Brain Drain and Non-Migrants' Welfare

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2018

Though a net brain gain has tended to be seen as a benefit and referred to as a 'beneficial brain drain' in the literature, its welfare impact for source country residents – or non-migrants – is at best ambiguous.Increased educational investment in response to a brain drain is equivalent to...

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Civicness Drain

Casari, Marco - 2018

Migration may cause not only a brain drain but also a civicness drain, leading to an uncivicness trap. We study this possibility using college choices of southern-Italian students classified as Civic if not cheating in a die-roll experiment. Local civicness is the fraction of Civic in their...

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Optimal Education Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in the Context of Brain Drain

Djajic, Slobodan - 2018

This paper revisits the question of how brain drain affects the optimal education policy of a developing economy. Our framework of analysis highlights the complementarity between public spending on education and students' efforts to acquire human capital in response to career opportunities at...

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