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Estimating immigrant earnings profiles when migrations are temporary

Dustmann, Christian; Görlach, Joseph-Simon - 2016

The assumption that all migrations are permanent, which pervaded the early microdata-based research on immigrant career profiles, is not supported by the empirical evidence. Rather, many - if not most - migrations appear to be temporary. In this paper, therefore, we illustrate the estimation...

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Dissecting network externalities in international migration

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Özden, Çağlar - 2011

Existing migrant networks play an important role in explaining the size and structure of immigration flows. They affect … the probability of potential migrants to obtain a visa through family reunification programs ("immigration policy" channel … illustration based on US immigration data by metropolitan area and country of origin. First, we show that the overall network …

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A note on brain gain and brain drain : permanent migration and education policy

Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2010

In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in the first place. However, it induces the host...

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A Note on Brain Gain and Brain Drain : Permanent Migration and Education Policy

Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2021

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A Case Against Taxes and Quotas on High-Skill Emigration

Clemens, Michael A. - 2014

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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Source country economic development and dynamics of the skill composition of emigration

Idu, Roxana - In: Economies : open access journal 7 (2019) 1/18, pp. 1-18

This paper presents an endogenous growth model of migration and technological diffusion with transitional dynamics, which provide explanations for the empirical pattern of the mobility transition. A two-skill group extension of this model offers new hypotheses regarding the skill composition of...

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Endogenous Emigration of Skilled Labour

Bandyopadhyay, Debasis - 2017

There is an increasing trend in the pattern of world migration of educated and skilled individuals leaving developing countries for developed ones. This has created much concern about a so-called “brain drain”. As the name suggests, the brain drain was believed by early commentators to be...

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Job status, international migration and educational choice

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

We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...

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Brain Drain in Globalization : A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective

Marchiori, Luca - 2013

The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...

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Brain Drain and Ldcs' Growth : Winners and Losers

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2021

We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the "beneficial brain drain hypothesis" in a...

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