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immigration studies have overemphasized the role played by differences in the distributions of countries’ wages and skills …
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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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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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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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Several destination countries still adopt general immigration policies, and are characterized by lower returns to … brain drain which demonstrates that migration can increase the average human capital in the sending countries if immigration … sensible assumptions on immigration policies and skill premia, where individuals face heterogeneous and correlated education …
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Migrations historically have led to fears of “brain drain” from the sending regions because many studies show that the more highly skilled and motivated people are more likely to migrate. South Africa provides a natural testing ground for the study of brain drains because the Apartheid...
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Skilled workers have a rising tendency to emigrate from developing countries, raising fears that their departure harms the poor. To mitigate such harm, researchers have proposed a variety of policies designed to tax or restrict high-skill migration. Those policies have been justified as Pigovian...
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This paper contributes to the emerging literature on gender differences in the causes and consequences of brain drain. Differentiating between gender bias in the access to economic opportunities and gender differentials in economic outcomes, we find that differences in access have a significant...
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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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This chapter considers methods for evaluating the impact of social programs in the presence of nonrandom program placement or program selection. It first presents the evaluation problem as a missing data problem and then considers various solutions proposed in the statistics and econometrics...
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