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As developing countries embark on a policy agenda of innovation-based growth, they face an acute shortage of competent individuals who know the country well, but who are not part of the “status quo” and therefore have no vested interests other than the best possible country outcome....
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, emerging as a proper subfield. Second, while it once embraced principally rural-urban migration and international remittances …Research on migration and development has recently changed, in two ways. First, it has grown sharply in volume …, migration and development research has broadened to consider a range of international development processes. These include human …
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of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants’ education level, and source countries’ income … migration. Moreover, as predicted by our model, remittances increase with source countries’ level and rate of migration … migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants’ education level. The determinants …
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In 2009 the EU adopted a new migration policy instrument - the Blue Cards (BC) - for attracting highly skilled workers … address the skill drain issues, we propose and examine alternative migration policy options for the LDC. …
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economy); Migration Competition (when the regions have not high differences in the productivity and they compete attracting …
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structure of the labor force, cause labor shortages, and affect fiscal policy, but it can also generate remittances and other …
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, and would devote more attention to measuring the effects of migration on skilled-migrant households, rigorously estimating … Lump of Learning model, pointing toward a new paradigm for research on skilled migration and development. …
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view tends to neglect two important dynamic effects: the role of migration networks, which could reduce immigrants' quality …, and the responsiveness of education decisions to the prospects of migration. Our model shows that migration networks and … immigration policies, the initial pattern of migrants' self-selection on education, and the way time-equivalent migration costs by …
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Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...
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This article analyzes the effect of migration from a less advanced economy to a more advanced economy on economic … are incorporated. The model shows that out-migration increases fertility and reduces human capital in the source economy …. At the same time, in-migration reduces fertility and can increase or decrease the average level of human capital in the …
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