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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?
Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge, eventually contributing to efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518125
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The gain from the drain : skill-biased migration and global welfare
Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzyński, Michał; Elsner, Benjamin - 2016
- often called brain drain - has been at the center of a heated debate about the welfare consequences of emigration from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011551902
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Development in Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018
conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794986
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The dynamic implications of liberalizing global migration
Delogu, Marco; Docquier, Frédéric; Machado, Joël - 2014
This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and education decisions. We identify bilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010235847
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Globalization, brain drain and development
Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011
development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or … and review the evidence on these channels. The recent empirical literature shows that high-skill emigration need not … Indian diaspora in the development of India's IT sector. We conclude with a discussion of the implications of the analysis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009235188
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Globalization and health worker crisis : what do wealth-effects tell us?
Asongu, Simplice A. - 2012
determinants of HHR emigration. We assess the determinants of emigration in the health sector through-out the conditional … distribution of health human resource emigration. Findings provide very targeted policy implications based on income-levels and … existing emigration levels for both physician and nurse worker crises. Beside specific policy recommendations, we also outlined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011410067
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2021
We propose a novel perspective on migration and cultural change by asking both theoretically and empirically - and from a global viewpoint - whether migration is a source of cultural convergence or divergence between home and host countries. Our theoretical model derives distinctive testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012648747
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Migration and cultural change
Rapoport, Hillel; Sardoschau, Sulin; Silve, Arthur - 2020
We examine both theoretically and empirically how migration affects cultural change in home and host countries. Our theoretical model integrates various compositional and cultural transmission mechanisms of migration-based cultural change for which it delivers distinctive testable predictions on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012270567
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Global integration and world migration
Stark, Oded - 2017
This paper explores the following chain of conjectures: rising use of the internet, the widespread access to global information, and intensified communication between regions and countries brought about, for example, by intensified trade links bring about expansion of people's social space and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594246
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Taking the skill bias out of global migration
Biavaschi, Costanza; Burzynski, Michał; Elsner, Benjamin; … - 2018
Global migration is heavily skill-biased, with tertiary-educated workers being four times more likely to migrate than workers with a lower education. In this paper, we quantify the global impact of this skill bias in migration. Based on a quantitative multi-country model with trade, we compare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011847543