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Skilled Emigration and Skill Creation: A quasi-experiment [PDF]
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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Body height and the excess cancer risk in men
International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.What's New? In cancers that affect both sexes, men usually have a higher risk than women. While this is often attributed to behavioral factors, such as exposure to environmental carcinogens, there may be an intrinsic biological mechanism involved. Tall stature has been associated with increased cancer risk.
Cecilia Radkiewicz +6 more
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Emigration Intentions: Mere Words or True Plans? Explaining International Migration Intentions and Behavior [PDF]
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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International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.What's New? The prognostic significance of the presence or absence of human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) and estrogen receptor (ER) in breast cancer is well‐established. However, the relationship of HER2 and ER with distant disease recurrence and metastasis location is less well understood.
Damien Kaukonen +4 more
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THE EMIGRATION OF PNEUMOCOCCI TYPE III FROM THE BLOOD INTO THE THORACIC DUCT LYMPH OF RABBITS, AND THE SURVIVAL OF THESE ORGANISMS IN THE LYMPH FOLLOWING INTRAVENOUS INJECTION OF SPECIFIC ANTISERUM [PDF]
, 1935 Cecil K. Drinker +3 more
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Do Visas Kill? Health Effects of African Health Professional Emigration [PDF]
The emigration of highly skilled workers can in theory lower social welfare in the migrant-sending country. If such workers produce a good whose consumption conveys a positive externality—such as nurses and doctors in a very poor country—the loss can be ...
Michael Clemens
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International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.What's New? Primary hepato‐pancreato‐biliary cancers have poor prognosis and their reporting often scores low on standard data quality indicators in population‐based cancer registries. This comprehensive evaluation of cases in the Netherlands Cancer Registry shows that both the incidence and survival rates of most primary hepato‐pancreato‐biliary ...
Lydia G. van der Geest +13 more
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Migration, Transfers and Child Labor [PDF]
We examine agricultural child labor in the context of emigration, transfers, and the abil-ity to hire outside labor. We start by developing a theoretical background based on Basu and Van, (1998), Basu, (1999) and Epstein and Kahana (2008) and show how ...
Gil S. Epstein +2 more
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International Journal of Cancer, EarlyView.What's New? Breast cancer results from a combination of genetic and environmental causes, and the cumulative effect of stressful life events may be a contributing factor. Here, the authors analyzed data from cohort and twin‐pair studies including 36 years of follow‐up to find out how stressful life events affect breast cancer risk. They found that even
Elissar Azzi +5 more
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Migration and the Welfare State: The Economic Power of the Non-Voter? [PDF]
This paper investigates the impact of emigration on the political choice regarding the size of the welfare state. Mobility has two countervailing effects: the political participation effect and the tax base effect. With emigration, the composition of the
Boerner, Kira, Uebelmesser, Silke
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