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Understanding the Pattern of Growth and Equity in the People’s Republic of China

Liu, Minquan - 2011

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Schooling forsaken : education and migration

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2019

We examine the phenomenon of forsaken schooling resulting from opportunities abroad. The brain-drain/gain literature takes as its starting point the migration of educated/professional labor from poor origin countries to richer host countries. While high-skilled migration is worrisome, many...

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Schooling forsaken : education and migration

Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Inequality in China

Heckman, James J. - 2012

China's rapid growth was fueled by substantial physical capital investments applied to a large stock of medium skilled … the past decade, China has made substantial investments in producing it. The egalitarian access to medium skilled …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

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Institutional Impact of the Brain Drain, Human Capital and Inequality : A Political Economy Analysis

Schiff, Maurice; Docquier, Frédéric - 2010

This paper examines the impact of the brain drain, human capital and inequality on institutions in a country where a rent-seeking elite levies a tax on the residents in migrants’ home country, and where skilled migrants and skilled and unskilled residents can affect the likelihood of regime...

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Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations

Docquier, Frédéric - 2006

Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants and the way it affects the well-being of those left behind. First, I present alternative...

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Human capital as engine of growth : the role of knowledge transfers in promoting balanced growth within and across countries

Ehrlich, Isaac; Pei, Yun - 2020

Unlike physical capital, human capital has both embodied and disembodied dimensions. It can be perceived of as skill and acquired knowledge, but also as knowledge spillover effects between overlapping generations and across different skill groups within and across countries. We illustrate the...

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Inequality and growth : the role of human capital with heterogeneous skills

Borissov, Kirill; Bosi, Stefano; Ha-Huy, Thai; Modesto, … - 2016

We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and initial human capital endowments. We consider two regimes according to the planner's political constraints. In the first regime, that we call meritocracy, the planner faces...

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Inequality and Growth : The Role of Human Capital with Heterogeneous Skills

Borissov, Kirill - 2016

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Human capital mobility : implications for efficiency, income distribution, and policy

Wildasin, David E. - 2014

Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the efficiency and distributional effects of mobility,...

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