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Externalities, human capital formation, and corrective migration policy

Stark, Oded; Wang, Yong - 1999

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Policy repercussions of The new economics of the Brain Drain

Stark, Oded - 2010

In this paper I delineate novel policy repercussions suggested by my research on The New Economics of the Brain Drain. In section 1, I provide a succinct account of the model that inspires the derivation of several new policy implications. In sections 2 through 5, I present the policy...

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Migration in LDCs: Risk, Remittances, and the Family

Stark, Oded - In: Finance and Development 28 (1991) 4, pp. 39-41

laborers. But recent research indicates that portfolio investment theory might hold the key to understanding why people migrate … in developing economies and how and why they remit their earnings. Under this theory, migration decisions are ordered by … and his colleagues, attempts to explain migrant behavior in light of portfolio investment theory applied to field studies …

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A Note on Modelling Labour Migration in LDCs

Stark, Oded - In: The Journal of Development Studies 20 (1984) 4, pp. 318-322

Taking the family as the rural-to-urban migration decision-making unit, will the “expected-income migration model” accurately predict the level of migration? Consideration of two variables - desire for leisure, and a version to risk - serves to show that the expected-income model yields a...

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The brain drain, educated unemployment, human capital formation, and economic betterment

Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - 2007

Extending both the harmful brain drain literature and the beneficial brain gain literature, this paper analyzes both the negative and the positive impact of migration by skilled individuals in a unified framework. The paper extends the received literature on the harmfulbrain drain by showing...

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Losses and gains to developing countries from the migration of educated workers: an overview of recent research, and new reflections

Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - 2007

This paper synthesizes and extends recent research on The New Economics of the Brain Drain. In a unified framework, the paper shows that while recently identified adverse repercussions of the brain drain exacerbate the long-recognized impacts of the brain drain, longer-term consequences turn the...

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The brain drain, "educated unemployment", human capital formation, and economic betterment

Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - 2007

Extending both the 'harmful brain drain' literature and the 'beneficial brain drain' literature, this paper analyzes both the negative and the positive impact of migration by skilled individuals in a unified framework. The paper extends the received literature on the 'harmful brain drain' by...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011470822

Losses and gains to developing countries from the migration of educated workers: An overview of recent research, and new reflections

Stark, Oded; Fan, C. Simon - 2007

This paper synthesizes and extends recent research on 'The New Economics of the Brain Drain.' In a unified framework, the paper shows that while recently identified adverse repercussions of the brain drain exacerbate the long-recognized negative impact of the brain drain, longer-term...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011470824

On the Economics of Refugee Flows

Stark, Oded - 2004

Although the phenomenon of refugee flows is not devoid of economic connotations, it has so far been investigated primarily by political scientists and sociologists. The analytical tools of economic inquiry have not yet been applied to this subject, although it stands to reason that such a study...

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On the demand for grandchildren : tied transfers and the demonstration effect

Cox, Donald; Stark, Oded - 2004

It is argued that parents provide help with housing downpayments in order to encourage the production of grandchildren, and that such a subsidization emanates from the ?demonstration effect:? a child?s propensity to furnish parents with attention and care can be conditioned by parental example....

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