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Virtual Erasmus - A new chance not only for Europe

Abramuszkinova Pavlikova, Eva - 2010

Virtual Mobility among two or more educational institutions offers students a virtual trip abroad. There is an opportunity to acquire a number of ECTS-points at one of the foreign partner institutions or through a joint activity which are counted to the student’s degree at his/her home...

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The new economics of the brain drain

Stark, Oded - 2005

For nearly four decades now, the conventional wisdom has been that the migration of human capital (skilled workers) from a developing country to a developed country is detrimental to the developing country. However, this perception need not hold. A well designed migration policy can result in a...

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A social proximity explanation of the reluctance to assimilate

Fan, C. Simon; Stark, Oded - 2007

Quite often, migrants appear to exert little effort to absorb the mainstream culture and to learn the language of their host society, even though the economic returns (increased productivity and enhanced earnings) to assimilation are high. We show that when interpersonal comparisons affect...

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Immigration, Skill Acquisition and Fiscal Redistribution in a Search-Equilibrium Model

Ikhenaode, Bright Isaac - 2018

Focusing on a selected group of 19 OECD countries, we analyze the effects of immigration on natives welfare, labor … impact of immigration. Our comparative statics analysis suggests that when natives adjust their skill in response to … immigration, they successfully avoid, under most scenarios, any potential displacement effect in the labor market. Moreover …

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An in-depth analysis of the emigration of skilled labour. Latvia

Hazans, Mihails - 2018

Emigrant survey data confirm a substantial university diploma drain from Latvia to various EU/EFTA destinations during 2000-2014. The share of tertiary-educated among emigrants further increased during their stay in the host countries, reaching, by 2014, 45 %. The share of university graduates...

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The immigrant-native pay gap in Germany

Humpert, Stephan - 2013

This note analyzes income differences between foreigners and natives in Germany. Using social survey data (ALLBUS) for 2012, I use Mincer style quantile regressions and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions to estimate the size of the income differential. People not born in Germany, have an income lose...

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Immigration, unemployment and human-capital acquisition

Lumpe, Christian - 2008

immigration. The first paper gives an overview on the economic literature on the impact of immigration on unemployment and wages … Papier gibt eine Übersicht zur bestehenden Literatur bezüglich des Einflusses von Immigration auf Löhne und Arbeitslosigkeit … interplay of immigration, native human-capital investment and the resulting consequences for the labour market outcome of …

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Migration, Mobility and Human Rights at the Eastern Border of the European Union - Space of Freedom and Security

Silasi, Grigore; Simina, Ovidiu Laurian - 2006

This edited collection of migration papers would like to emphasise the acute need for migration related study and research in Romania. At this time, migration and mobility are studied as minor subjects in Economics, Sociology, Political Sciences and European Studies only (mostly at post-graduate...

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Source Country Characteristics and Immigrants’ Migration Duration and Saving Decisions

Kirdar, Murat - 2009

This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to changes in purchasing power parity (ppp) as well as in the wage ratio between the host and source countries. For this purpose, I develop a model of immigrants' joint migration duration and...

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Return Migration: an Empirical Investigation

Zakharenko, Roman - 2008

Many people emigrating abroad eventually return home. Yet, little is known about the returnees: who are they and how do they compare to those who did not return? How does their decision to return depend on economic situation at home? In this paper, I empirically analyze the propensity of US...

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