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The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...
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-migrants. Conditional on occupational skills, education and earnings no longer predict migration decisions. Differential labor …-to-skills measures in predicting migration. Results are persistent over time and hold within narrowly defined regional, sectoral, and …
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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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future migration can positively impact educational attainment. According to our results, a 10pp increase in the probability … of own future migration may improve the average probability of completing intermediate secondary schooling by 8pp for … substantial human capital gains from lowering migration barriers …
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pre- and post-migration labour market outcomes and find that the probability of downshifting decreases with the duration … to migration in the home country was more likely to downshift abroad. Further, we find that migrants to the EU are more …
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In this paper we study theoretically and empirically the role of the interaction between skilled migration and …
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This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states' overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...
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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 achievements in education as well as its...
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. Nonetheless, while BD has been studied extensively, AD drain has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h …), which combines PS and VS (e.g., Canada, 2015 ). I find that i) Migration reduces (raises) source country residents …
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, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development …
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