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Using these parameter estimates, country specific effects of emigration of medical
doctors are discussed.
Figure II.1.3.7: Output of Human Capital from Different Gamma
The above shows clearly that as " increases (decreases), the physical productivity of
medical schooling increases (decreases) as expected from the sign of the derivative of
g(h) with respect to " with h higher than 1. Lower " is equivalent to lower productivity of
medical education while higher " is equivalent to higher productivity of medical
schooling. The above estimated " may indicate that the candidates for emigration are
those with 0.79 and this is a high level of ".
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B.2. Relative wages
B.2.a. ECE Countries
After the enlargement of EU, the main destination countries for East European
emigration were Western countries of EU. Despite the increasing pressure of
globalization and of the knowledge economy which promote labour migration, Fouarge
and Ester (2008) find out that Europeans are not that willing to move to another country.
Anyway, there are great disparities between countries, mostly between Eastern and
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