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Skilled Emigration and Skill Creation: A quasi-experiment [PDF]

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Does the emigration of highly-skilled workers deplete local human capital? The answer is not obvious if migration prospects induce human capital formation.
Michael Clemens, Satish Chand
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Grandmother's pregnancy complications and autism spectrum disorders in grandchildren, a California multigenerational cohort study

open access: yesJCPP Advances, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Pregnancy complications have been associated with offspring autism spectrum disorders (ASD). There has also been increasing evidence for multigenerational risk factors of ASD. Methods In a multigenerational California birth cohort of 1,740,379 mother–child pairs, we investigated pregnancy complications when the grandmother was ...
Ting Chow   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

«E continuam a partir»: as migrações portuguesas contemporâneas

open access: yesLer História, 2009
The present article analyses the migratory flows that have developed after the announced ‘end of Portuguese emigration’. It is argued that despite a political discourse and a research practice that tended to manifest a clear disinterest in the outflow of
José Carlos Marques
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Between Practicality and Politics: Factors of Sub‐National Aid Allocation in Bosnia and Herzegovina

open access: yesJournal of International Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Bosnia and Herzegovina represents a unique case of aid recipient for its complex history and administrative and political divisions. Yet, little is known about how foreign aid is allocated to local recipients. This qualitative study uncovers factors shaping sub‐national aid allocation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, highlighting donors' and ...
Lenka Dušková   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Foreign Health Assistance Reduce the Medical Brain Drain? [PDF]

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This paper analyses the impact of foreign health aid on the emigration rates of physicians. We use a panel database to investigate the emigration of physicians from 192 source countries to 17 destination countries between 1995 and 2004.
Yasser MOULLAN
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Predicting long‐term population viability for an imperiled salamander under future climate changes

open access: yesThe Journal of Wildlife Management, EarlyView.
We evaluated the long‐term viability of 2 reticulated flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma bishopi) populations in response to multiple future climate change scenarios. We found that there is a high probability of extinction by 2100 under some scenarios, mostly driven by severe droughts and repeated reproductive failure. Conservation actions should focus on
Houston C. Chandler   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brain Drain, Brain Gain, and Economic Growth in China [PDF]

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This paper examines the effects of both permanent and temporary emigration on human capital formation and economic growth of the source regions. To achieve this end, this paper explores the Chinese provincial panel data from 1980 to 2005.
Ha, Wei, Yi, Junjian, Zhang, Junsen
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The number of prior knee arthroscopies is associated with an incremental increase in risk of revision in a subsequent total knee arthroplasty

open access: yesKnee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, EarlyView.
Abstract Purpose The aim of this study was to estimate the relative risk of revision for total knee arthroplasty (TKA) with prior knee arthroplasties compared to TKAs in knees without prior surgery. In addition, this study aimed to assess if there was a dose‐response relationship between the number of prior knee arthroscopies and the risk of TKA ...
Julius Tetens Hald   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emigration Intentions: Mere Words or True Plans? Explaining International Migration Intentions and Behavior [PDF]

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Do people follow up on their intentions? In this paper we confront the emigration intentions formed by inhabitants of the Netherlands during the year 2004-2005 and the emigration steps they took in the subsequent two years. Three results stand out. First,
Dalen, H.P. van, Henkens, K.
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