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Demographic shocks and global factor flows [PDF]

How economists view the impact of demography on economic events has changed a great deal over the past decade or so. When, in the late 1980s, Allen Kelley (1988) was writing his magisterial survey on the economic consequences of population growth in the ...
Jeffrey G. Williamson
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Nest attributes influence choice accuracy, but not decision latency in acorn ants. [PDF]

PLoS One
Chan SS, Weinberg IP, Starks PT, Hemingway CT.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Assessing the utility of autonomous recording units and spring point counts for monitoring abundance of ruffed grouse Bonasa umbellus

Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.
The ruffed grouse Bonasa umbellus is a species of conservation concern that has declined across most of its range. At the southeastern trailing edge of the range in Georgia, grouse are restricted to elevations 600 m a.s.l. and abundance is relatively low.
Clayton D. Delancey, William B. Lewis, Gregory T. Wann, Richard B. Chandler, Emily Rushton, James A. Martin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Brain Drain and its Determinants: A Major Issue for Small States [PDF]

This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states’ overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled ...
Beine, Michel, Docquier, Frédéric, Schiff, Maurice   +2 more
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When did you leave home? Reconstructing juvenile life histories of coastal Washington adult coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) using otolith structure and chemistry. [PDF]

PLoS One
Anderson AJ, Claiborne AM, Litz MNC, Campbell L.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Drone‐based radiotelemetry and imagery systems provide an advantage over traditional techniques for estimating survival of dependent juveniles

Wildlife Society Bulletin, EarlyView.
We used drone‐based radiotelemetry and multispectral imagery to estimate detection and survival probabilities of blue‐winged teal broods in Saskatchewan, Canada. Weekly brood survival probabilities, estimated via Cormack‐Jolly‐Seber models, increased with age and were comparable between drone methods.
Grant A. Rhodes, Dylan L. Bakner, Hannah C. Sabatier, Benjamin S. Sedinger, Christopher A. Nicolai, Kevin M. Ringelman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Emigration of Highly Skilled Labor: Determinants & Impacts [PDF]

This is an additional contribution to the large body of literature developed in the area of economics of skilled labor migration. It focuses on two major objectives that are the determinants of the migration and its likely impacts on developing economies.
Boboc, Cristina, Driouchi, Ahmed, Zouag, Nada   +2 more
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Roots and Wings: The Role of Job Embeddedness in Mitigating Nurses' Emigration Intention Through a Serial Mediation Lens. [PDF]

J Nurs Manag
Akinwande AS, Tanova C, Bayighomog S, Ajayi DO.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Environmentally induced stress affects fitness of bold and shy alike: A long‐term study of personality and feather corticosterone in Arctic‐breeding kittiwakes

Journal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Quantifying how individuals differ as their environment changes around them is crucial to predict population responses to climate change. By incorporating personality, physiology and life‐history the authors show that while environmental change is likely to impact the whole population equally, when individuals are most impacted will vary across the ...
Frederick C. Mckendrick, Samantha C. Patrick, Sébastien Descamps, Alexis P. Will, Kathryn E. Arnold, Stephanie M. Harris, Alexander S. Kitaysky   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Endogenous Skill Formation and the Source Country Effects of International Labor Market Integration [PDF]

With endogenous skills and given technology, labor market integration necessarily lowers welfare of the left-behind in a poor sending country, even if all agents face identical emigration probabilities.
Gabriel J. Felbermayr, Hartmut Egger
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