How Can Scholarship Institutions Foster the Return of Foreign Students?
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Miriam Henseler
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Joachim Plesch
Summary
We investigate the return decision of students from developing and transition countries who studied in Germany and received support from a scholarship institution. Using a discrete time duration analysis and controlling for economic, political and institutional determinants, we find that individual factors, in particular age and time spent in the host country, have a crucial impact on the return decision. We propose selection criteria and proper contractual arrangements that are liable to induce students to return, thereby fostering the economic development in their home countries.Moreover, we analyze the impact of cultural differences between home and host country on the return decision. Especially graduates from Africa seem to consider cultural differences when deciding whether and when to return.
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- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews
Articles in the same Issue
- Inhalt / Contents
- Abhandlungen / Original Papers
- Engines Powered by Renewable Energy, the Network of Filling Stations and Compatibility Decisions
- How Can Scholarship Institutions Foster the Return of Foreign Students?
- Welchen Zusammenhang zwischen Preis und Qualität sollte der Wettbewerb auf Konsumgütermärkten herstellen? / Which Price-Quality Relationship Should Competition Induce on Consumer Goods Markets ?
- Rentenreform und Rentenzugangsentscheidung – Eine numerische Gleichgewichtsanalyse / Pension Reform and Endogenous Retirement – a Computable General Equilibrium Analysis
- Struktur und Ausmaß der intergenerationalen Einkommensmobilität in Deutschland / Structure and Extent of Intergenerational Income Mobility in Germany
- What Determines Household Saving Behavior
- Forecasting Behavioural and Distributional Effects of the Bofinger-Walwei Model using Microsimulation
- Buchbesprechungen / Book Reviews
