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Remittances and the Brain Drain: Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less
Niimi, Yoko; Ozden, Caglar; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants’ education level, and source countries’ income … migration. Moreover, as predicted by our model, remittances increase with source countries’ level and rate of migration … migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants’ education level. The determinants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761778
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008873309
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Emigration and Democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019918
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Schiff, Maurice - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009317942
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Emigration and Democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839273
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Measuring Skilled Emigration Rates: The Case of Small States
Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Recent changes in information and communication technologies (ICT) have contributed to a dramatic increase in the integration and interdependence of countries, markets and people. This paper focuses on an increasingly important aspect of globalization, the international movement of people, with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763724
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Brain Drain and its Determinants: A Major Issue for Small States
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822707
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North-South Trade-related Technology Diffusion, Brain Drain and Productivity Growth: Are Small States Different?
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2009
The economies of small developing states tend to be more fragile than those of large ones. This paper examines this issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of the brain drain on North-South trade-related technology diffusion and total factor productivity growth in small and large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005116013
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Brain Drain and Productivity Growth: Are Small States Different?
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper examines the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion on TFP growth in small and large states in the South. The main findings are: i) TFP growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion, with education, and with the interaction between the two, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703441
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Migration and Diversity: Human versus Social Capital
Manole, Vlad; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
migrants and natives under both migration and trade. We use a general equilibrium model of migration, human capital and social … natives. Trade and both migration solutions reduce inequality between the populations of the two countries by the same amount …. In addition, trade and migration are not equivalent if social capital is present: the highest welfare is obtained with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822670