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On the determinants of global bilateral migration flows

Crespo Cuaresma, Jesús; Moser, Mathias; Raggl, Anna - 2013

We present a method aimed at estimating global bilateral migration flows and assessing their determinants. We employ that fact that available net migration figures for a country are (nonlinear) aggregates of migration flows from and to all other countries of the world in order to construct a...

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Demographic optimum in the context of migration : the German case

Pohoaţă, Ion; Crupenschi, Vladimir-Mihai; Căriman, … - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 19 (2017) 46, pp. 654-669

education level and also in the algorithm of their allocation so that the economy’s workforce demand is met. The structural … disequilibrium of the workforce offer reflected in the scarcity of workforce members which have attained only a primary education … ing a specific level of education, while taking into account the choices of future competitors on the labour market …

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Migration experience, aspirations and the brain drain theory and empirical evidence

Böhme, Marcus; Glaser, Toni - 2014

education of her children back home. We find that this aspirations effect increases the average skill level in the society for a …

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Job status, international migration and educational choice

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

choose the non-professional education track. Those who might have otherwise pursued higher, professional education may forgo … education since, they will be overqualified in the host country. This will have a long run affect. As time goes on, therefore …

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Migration, child education, human capital accumulation, and a brain dilution tax

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2025

I study the effect of educational policy in the host economy on human capital accumulation and growth. The analysis is performed in a two-country growth model with endogenous fertility. I show that providing additional free educational services for immigrant children can increase the...

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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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Decomposing migrant self-selection : education, occupation, and unobserved abilities

Kauppinen, Ilpo; Poutvaara, Panu - 2023

Statistics Finland. We analyze emigration events lasting at least five years and decompose migrant self-selection into education … positively self-selected in terms of education and earnings. We also find strong evidence of sorting: men who emigrate outside …

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A back-door brain drain

Stark, Oded; Byra, Lukasz - 2012

In this paper we study the impact of the international migration of unskilled workers on skill formation and the average skill level in the home country. We analyze what appears to be the least threatening scenario from the point of view of its effect on the supply of skills at home: namely,...

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How skilled immigration may improve economic equality

Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 3 (2014), pp. 1-13

Mobile workers involve flows of labor and human capital and contribute to a more efficient allocation of resources. However, migration also changes relative wages, alters the distribution of skills and affects equality in the receiving society. The paper suggests that skilled immigration...

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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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