Counting Foreign‐Born and Expatriates in OECD Countries: A New Perspective

Dumont, Jean‐Christophe; Lemaître, Georges

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“…This assumption can be argued to hold with yearly data in our context but is unlikely to hold across decades. Therefore, we use yearly data from the OECD international migration database that provides good coverage of immigrants in OECD countries from all countries of the world (Arslan et al., ; Dumont & Lemaitre, ; Widmaier & Dumont, ).…”

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Heterogeneous immigrants, exports and foreign direct investment: The role of language skills

Lücke

Stöhr

2017

World Economy

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We investigate the interplay of language skills and immigrant stocks in determining bilateral FDI outstocks of OECD reporting countries. Applying a Poisson panel estimator to 2004–11 data, we find robust evidence for a positive effect of bilateral immigrants on bilateral FDI‐provided that residents of the two countries have few language skills in common. We find a similar effect for immigrants from third countries that speak the language(s) of the FDI host country, making them potential substitutes for bilateral migrants. Our findings suggest that immigrants facilitate outgoing FDI through their language skills, rather than through other characteristics like cultural familiarity.

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Heterogeneous immigrants, exports and foreign direct investment: The role of language skills

Lücke

Stöhr

2017

World Economy

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“…This analysis accords with general conclusions about migrant characteristics, leading to concerns of a brain drain potential from Lithuania (Sipaviciene and Stankuniene, 1997). Eurobarometer data revealed that the total number of expatriates from Lithuania who were residing in OECD countries in 2003 was 132,843 with 22.1 per cent of these being highly‐skilled workers (Dumont and Lemaitre, 2005: 38). In 2003, 37.4 per cent of the 54,153 Latvian expatriates and 32 per cent of the 35,077 Estonian expatriates in OECD countries were highly skilled.…”

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EU Integration & Emigration Consequences: The Case of Lithuania

Thaut

2009

International Migration

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This paper analyses the causes, consequences, and policy implications of Lithuanian emigration following the country's European Union (EU) accession in May 2004. After placing Lithuanian emigration in its historical context, the study assesses the recent dynamics, including the driving forces and characteristics of Lithuanian emigration at both the international and domestic level. The study finds that the primary determinants of this movement are both demand-and supply-side factors. On the demand side, the labour shortages, decline in the working age population, and desire for cheaper labour in Western European countries function to attract Lithuanian labour. Concurrently, lower wages, higher unemployment, and the generally less developed economic conditions in Lithuania are encouraging Lithuanians to take advantage of the greater mobility that came with EU accession. The expanding networks linking migrants and potential migrants are facilitating this out-migration, as well as the social mind-set by which emigration is a perceived solution to socio-economic difficulties. This study concludes that the consequences of this new emigration reality are mixed. The free movement of workers has helped to relieve pressure on the domestic labour market, drive down unemployment, place upward pressure on wages, and increase the remittances rate to Lithuania. However, concern is not ill-founded; recent emigration has introduced labour market shortages, placed greater demographic pressure on the country, and increased the likelihood of brain drain. This study argues, therefore, that while Lithuanian emigration cannot and should not be stopped, Lithuania does have policy alternatives as a sending-country that will help to mitigate the costs of emigration and maximize the benefits for the country's long-term development.

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“…According to the OECD, the percentage of university graduates among NZ diaspora is higher than among other developed nations (Dumont and Lemaitre, 2008). While the issue whether foreign education should be encouraged is complex due to domestic and foreign education externalities, diaspora networks and the selectivity of return migration, the results of 16 this paper suggest that policies that encourage return migration of NZ born with foreign experience and foreign education could have significant pay-offs.…”

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Internationalisation of Education and Returns in the Labour Market

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Roskruge²

2013

Chiikigaku Kenkyu (Studies in Regional Science)

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Counting Foreign‐Born and Expatriates in OECD Countries: A New Perspective

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Heterogeneous immigrants, exports and foreign direct investment: The role of language skills

Heterogeneous immigrants, exports and foreign direct investment: The role of language skills

EU Integration & Emigration Consequences: The Case of Lithuania

Internationalisation of Education and Returns in the Labour Market

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