Maurice Schiff

Research Fellow

World Bank

schiffmauricewilly@gmail.com

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Maurice Schiff was born in Belgium, got his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Economics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and his PhD from the University of Chicago. He spent two years as Professor and Research Director of the Faculty of Economics and Business of the University of Concepcion, Chile, after which he joined the World Bank. He worked at the World Bank as Lead Economist in the Development Research Group and in the Office of the Chief Economist of the Latin America and Caribbean Region, and is currently International Consultant.

His work has focused on different aspects of development, including international trade [sector-specific and economy-wide policies' impact on developing country agriculture, trade-related technology diffusion, regional integration, commodities' trade]; international migration [brain drain; migration's impact on fertility and on social capital, ability drain]; nutrition; and natural resources, trade and migration.

He joined IZA as a Research Fellow in January 2004.

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IZA-Publikationen

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17200

Population Growth and the Tragedy of the Commons: Can Trade Prevent Natural Resource and Welfare Collapse?

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 17199

Benefits and Costs of Brain and Ability Drain

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14460

A Political Economy and Voicing Model of the Institutional Impact of Brain Drain, Human Capital, Inequality and Country Size

Frédéric Docquier, Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14279

Low, High and Super Congestion of a Renewable Natural Resource under Autarky and Trade

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13652

Low, High and Super Congestion of an Open-Access Natural Resource: The Autarky Case

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12784

Greater US Gun Ownership, Lethality and Murder Rates: Analysis and Policy Proposals

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11551

Brain Drain-Induced Brain Gain and the Bhagwati Tax: Are Early and Recent Paradigms Compatible?

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11483

Beneficial Brain Drain and Non-Migrants' Welfare

Maurice Schiff

published as 'Brain drain, brain gain and optimal education policy: Implications for non-migrant welfare 'in: Revue d'économie du développement, 2020, 28, 5 - 29

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11049

Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion: Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Distance to the North

Maurice Schiff, Yanling Wang

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10843

Education, Governance, Trade and Distance: Impact on Technology Diffusion and the East Asia-Latin America Productivity Gap

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9542

Ability Drain

Maurice Schiff

published as 'Ability drain: size, impact, and comparison with brain drain under alternative immigration policies' in: Journal of Population Economics, 2017, 30, 1337- 1354

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8041

Can US Coordination Failure Explain Why Americans Work So Much More than Europeans?

Maurice Schiff

published in: World Economy, 2017, 40 (9), 1708-1717

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7955

Brain Drain, Educational Quality and Immigration Policy: Impact on Productive Human Capital in Source and Host Countries, with Canada as a Case Study

Maurice Schiff

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5496

Emigration and Democracy

Frédéric Docquier, Elisabetta Lodigiani, Hillel Rapoport, Maurice Schiff

strongly revised version published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2016, 120, 209-223

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4943

North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion: Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America

Maurice Schiff, Yanling Wang

published in: El Trimestre Economico, 2012, 79 (2), 289-311

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4938

Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade

Maurice Schiff

published as 'Small States, Micro States, and their International Negotiation and Migration' in: Journal of Economic Integration, 2014, 29 (3), 430-449

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4923

Trade and Migration with Renewable Natural Resources: Out-of-Steady-State Dynamics

Ramón López, Maurice Schiff

published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2013, 104, 1-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3912

International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, Maurice Schiff

published in: Canadian Journal of Economics, 2013, 46 (4)

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3398

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

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, Maurice Schiff

revised version published in: Artal-Tur/Peri/Requena-Silvente (Eds.),The Socio-Economic Impact of Migration Flows - Springer: 2014