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Skill-biased technological change, unemployment and brain drain

Fadinger, Harald; Mayr, Karin - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2012

We develop a general equilibrium model of technological change and migration to examine the effects of a change in skill endowments on wages, employment rates and emigration rates of skilled and unskilled workers. We find that, depending on the elasticity of substitution between skilled and...

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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited: The microdata show that more educated migrants remit more

McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Bollard, Albert; Morten, Melanie - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009

Two of the most salient trends surrounding the issue of migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances, and an increased flow of skilled migration. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit...

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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2011

capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …

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The Microeconomic Determinants of Emigration and Return Migration of the Best and Brightest: Evidence from the Pacific

McKenzie, David Mckenzie; Gibson, John - Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), … - 2009

A unique survey which tracks worldwide the best and brightest academic performers from three Pacific countries is used to assess the extent of emigration and return migration among the very highly skilled, and to analyze, at the microeconomic level, the determinants of these migration choices....

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