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Brain waste? Educated immigrants in the U.S. labor market
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This paper investigated the occupational placement of immigrants in the U.S. labor market using census data and found that highly educated immigrants from different countries are more likely to end up in unskilled jobs than immigrants from Asia and industrial countries.About:
This article is published in Journal of Development Economics.The article was published on 2005-04-01. It has received 308 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Human capital & Eastern european.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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International Migration, Remittances, and the Brain Drain
Ça lar Özden,Maurice Schiff +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the determinants of migration, and the impact of migration and remittances on various development indicators, and measures of welfare, including poverty and inequality, investments in education, health, housing and other productive activities; entrepreneurship; and child labor and education.
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Eight questions about brain drain
John Gibson,David McKenzie +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors build upon a new wave of empirical research to answer eight key questions underlying much of the brain drain debate: 1) What is brain drain? 2) Why should economists care about it? 3) Is brain drain increasing? 4) Is there a positive relationship between skilled and unskilled migration? 5) What makes brain drain more likely? 6) Does brain gain exist? 7) Do high-skilled workers remit, invest, and share knowledge back home? and 8) What do we know about the fiscal and production externalities of brain drain
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Leveraging Migration for Africa: Remittances, Skills, and Investments
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide new analyses and case studies, as well as formulating policy recommendations that can improve the migration experience for migrants, origin countries, and destination countries.
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Migration Remittances and Development: A Review of Global Evidence
John Page,Sonia Plaza +1 more
TL;DR: This paper reviewed evidence on how migrants contribute to the economic development of their countries of origin in addition to describing the state of knowledge regarding flows of people and migrant remittances worldwide, focusing on the current literature dealing with the development impact of transfers of money, knowledge, and skills by migrants back to their home countries.
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Armed Conflict 1946-2001: A New Dataset
TL;DR: In the period 1946-2001, there were 225 armed conflicts and 34 of them were active in all of or part of 2001 as mentioned in this paper, and this dataset has now been backdated to the end of World War II.
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The Effect of Americanization on the Earnings of Foreign-born Men
TL;DR: This paper analyzed the earnings of foreign-born adult white men, as reported in the 1970 Census of Population, through comparisons with the native born and among the foreign born by country of origin, years in the United States, and citizenship.
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Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants
TL;DR: This article analyzed the way in which the immigrant population may be expected to differ from the earnings of the native population because of the endogeneity of the migration decision and showed that differences in the U.S. earnings of immigrants with the same measured skills, but from different home countries, are attributable to variations in conditions in the country of origin at the time of migration.
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The Economics of Immigration
TL;DR: The authors conducted a literature review on the impact of immigration on the economy of the host country focusing on the experience of the United States. The emphasis is on the period from the 1970s to the 1990s, and the author shows that research earlier in this period generally concluded that the economic effects of immigration were positive but that more recent research on later migrations have generally concluded immigration may be having an adverse effect on the earnings of native unskilled workers and be placing an increased burden on welfare programs.
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Self-Selection and the Earnings of Immigrants
TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the way in which the earnings of the immigrant population may be expected to differ from those of the native population because of the endogeneity of the decision to migrate.