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The microeconomic determinants of emigration and return migration of the best and brightest: evidence from the Pacific

Gibson, John; McKenzie, David - 2009

A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices....

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Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions

Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010

Many empirical studies on the determinants of international migration flows rely exclusively on macro data, and do not account for migrants' self-selection. We analyze a very interesting episode in international migration for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all...

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Who Leaves and Who Returns? Deciphering Immigrant Self-Selection from a Developing Country

Akee, Randall K. Q. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

immigration studies have overemphasized the role played by differences in the distributions of countries’ wages and skills …

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Immigration policies and the ecuadorian exodus

Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; … - 2010

Ecuador experienced an unprecedented wave of international migration since the late 1990s, triggered by a severe economic and financial crisis. This paper gathers individual-level data from Ecuador and the two main destinations of Ecuadorian migrants: the US and Spain. First, we provide a...

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Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous Skills, Migration Networks and the Effectiveness of Quality-Selective Immigration Policies

Bertoli, Simone; Rapoport, Hillel - 2013

A growing number of OECD countries are leaning toward adopting quality-selective immigration policies. The underlying … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by … with the degree of selectivity of immigration policies at destination. Empirical evidence presented as background …

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Heaven's Swing Door: Endogenous Skills, Migration Networks and the Effectiveness of Quality-Selective Immigration Policies

Bertoli, Simone; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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Financial liberalization and the brain drain: A panel data analysis

Mitra, Aniruddha; Bang, James T.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2011

This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an exploratory factor analysis, we are able to distinguish between two dimensions of financial...

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Returning to the question of a wage premium for returning migrants

Barrett, Alan; Goggin, Jean - 2010

Using data from a large-scale survey of employees in Ireland, we estimate the extent to which people who have emigrated from Ireland and returned earn more relative to comparable people who have never lived abroad. In so doing, we are testing the hypothesis that migration can be part of a...

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Climate change, natural disasters and migration: An empirical analysis in developing countries

Drabo, Alassane; Mbaye, Linguère Mously - 2011

The aim of this paper is to assess the relationship between natural disasters caused by climate change and migration by examining migration rates and levels of education in developing countries. Many studies such as the Stern review (2007) or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC,...

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Who Leaves and Who Returns?Deciphering Immigrant Self-Selectionfrom a Developing Country

Akee, Randall K. Q. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

immigration studieshave overemphasized the role played by differences in the distributions of countries´ wagesand skills... …

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