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Why Go to France or Germany, if You Could as Well Go to the UK or the US? Selective Features of Immigration to Four Major OECD Countries

Geis, Wido - 2008

geographical and cultural, immigration policies and migrant networks. Differentiating immigrants by their educational attainments …

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Does 'Societal Security' Travel? A Comparison of German and South African Responses to Immigration

Ilgit, Asli; Klotz, Audie - 2009

This paper examines whether European notions of securitization and societal security provide insights into immigration …-called Copenhagen School (and its critics), particularly the concept of societal security and its relationship to immigration. Second …, through a most-similar comparison of four specific aspects of recent German and South African immigration policy reforms, we …

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Ability drain : size, impact, and comparison with brain drain under alternative immigration policies

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2017

Ability drain's (AD) impact seems economically significant, with 30% of US Nobel laureates since 1906 being immigrants, and immigrants or their children founding 40% of Fortune 500 companies. Nonetheless, while brain drain (BD) and gain (BG) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine...

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A comparative portrait of long-run racial disparity in the United States and Brazil

Bucciferro, Justin R. - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 41 (2023) 2, pp. 84-110

The relative incomes and education-levels of Black and white populations in the United States and Brazil are considered after Abolition, and framed by earlier disparities in their natural rates of increase. For the post-World War Two period, the effects of demography, education, and regional...

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Ability Drain : Size, Impact, and Comparison with Brain Drain Under Alternative Immigration Policies

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2016

Immigrants or their children founded over 40% of the Fortune 500 US companies. This suggests that ‘ability drain' is economically significant. While brain drain associated with migration also induces a brain gain, this cannot occur with ability drain. This paper examines migration's impact on...

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Identifying the key issues focusing on the costs and benefits of immigration in developed countries

Dobra, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The present paper aims to acquaint concisely about the main issues surrounding the theme "immigration" founded in the … question of assessing on the one hand the costs and on the other hand the benefits of immigration, through the exploitation of …

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Principal concerns concentrating on the costs and benefits of immigration in developed countries

Dobra, Alexandra - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

The present paper aims to acquaint concisely about the principal concerns surrounding the theme immigration, founded in … the portrait of immigrants – by focusing on three main developed countries of immigration: the United Kingdom, Spain and … France – and the reasons explaining the immigration phenomenon. Second, (comprising the second part of the corpus), an …

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Wage Inequality in Austin - Different Industries, Different Stories

Echeverri-Carroll, Elsie; Kshetramade, Mayuresh - 2002

The growth of Austin's high-tech industry and the industry's multiple contributions to economic development led Forbes magazine to rank Austin as the number one and number two place to live in the United States in 2000 and 2001, respectively. Our data show that college and high-school graduates...

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An index of inter-industry wage inequality : trends, comparisons, and robustness

Scholl, Nathalie - 2017

This paper introduces a newly constructed Theil index of between-sectoral manufacturing wage inequality and empirically tests whether the measure can serve as a basis for more general statements about the evolution of broader concepts of inequality, as argued by the authors of the University of...

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How Important is Human Capital for Development? Evidence from Immigrant Earnings

Hendricks, Lutz - 1999

Following Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (1992) a growing number of studies find that neoclassical growth models, augmented by human capital, successfully account for the large cross-country income differences found in the data. This paper argues that such models are inconsistent with observations on...

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