The phenomenon of brain drain, that is the emigration highly skilled people, has many undesirable effects, particularly for developing countries. In this study, an agent-based model developed to understand dynamics such emigration. We hypothesise people's decisions are based on several factors including overall economic and social difference between home host countries, ability capacity obtain ...

Human exposure to phthalates is ubiquitous due to widespread commercial use. Although the compounds are reported to be rap­ idly metabolized, concentrations in the body appear to remain fairly stable due to ongoing exposure. The United States and Europe have banned some phthalates from consumer products primarily on the basis of reproductive toxicity data. However, not all phthalates are regula...

Regionalism in West Africa: Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? A Role for Migration In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on brain drain from ...

This paper studies the impact of international labor migration on human capital investment in both hosting and sending countries using an integrated theoretical framework. We develop a two-country dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with mobility, which decisions to migrate invest skill acquisition are endogenous. show that formation process origin is very sensitive policies implemente...