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Brain-drain taxes for non-benevolent governments
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In this article, the welfare effects of brain-drain taxes levied by non-benevolent governments were investigated, whereby a country collects a tax from skilled emigrants but potentially wastes a sizable portion of the revenue.About:
This article is published in Journal of Development Economics.The article was published on 2011-05-01. It has received 17 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Tax reform & Indirect tax.read more
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Globalization, Brain Drain, and Development
TL;DR: The authors reviewed four decades of economics research on the brain drain with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues, showing that high-skill migration is becoming a dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization and used a stylized growth model to analyze the various channels through which a brain drain affects the sending countries and review the evidence on these channels.
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Emigration and democracy
TL;DR: This paper found that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom, which implies that unskilled (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality.
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Emigration and Democracy
Frédéric Docquier,Elisabetta Lodigiani,Elisabetta Lodigiani,Hillel Rapoport,Hillel Rapoport,Maurice Schiff +5 more
TL;DR: This paper found that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom, which implies that unskilled (skilled) emigration has a positive (ambiguous) impact on institutional quality.
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Globalization, Brain Drain and Development
TL;DR: This article reviewed four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues, showing that brain drain migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization and used a stylized growth model to analyze the various channels through which a brain drain affects the sending countries and review the evidence on these channels.
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Exit, Voice, and Political Change: Evidence from Swedish Mass Migration to the United States
Mounir Karadja,Erik Prawitz +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the political effects of mass emigration to the United States in the nineteenth century using data from Sweden were studied using a data set from the Swedish National Archives, and the authors used this dataset to instrument for total emigration over several decades, exploiting severe l...
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Political Economics: Explaining Economic Policy
Torsten Persson,Guido Tabellini +1 more
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Optimal Taxation and Public Production I: Production Eficiency
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the desirability of aggregate production efficiency in a wide variety of circumstances provided that taxes are set at the optimal level, and an examination of that optimal tax structure.
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Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries : winners and losers
TL;DR: This article examined the impact of brain drain migration on human capital formation in developing countries and found evidence of a positive effect of skilled migration prospects on gross human capital creation in a cross-section of 127 countries.
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In Defense of Globalization
TL;DR: In defense of globalization, Bhagwati as mentioned in this paper argues that globalization is part of the solution to many of the problems for which it has been blamed, such as child labour, environmental degradation, cultural homogenization and a host of other ills afflicting poorer nations.