John Mchale
Biographic Data
| ID | 629604 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Mchale |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Mchale |
| SIGNATURE | MCHALE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Binghamton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9132-1528 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 209 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Opportunistic Upskilling in European Labour Markets—Evidence From a Wide Replication
We build on Modestino et al., who analysed “opportunistic upskilling” during the 2007 recession in the US, by extending their approach to European labour markets following recent economic shocks. Using a comprehensive dataset of online job postings (2019–2023) and an instrumental variable approach leveraging Ukrainian refugee inflows, we find that increases in labour supply have a significant positive effect on both education and experience requi…
Recent trends in firm‐level total factor productivity in the UK
Understanding the poor productivity performance of the UK economy since the financial crisis is complicated by the well‐known challenges in estimating total factor productivity (TFP) using only revenue data. We develop a structural framework to infer quality‐adjusted TFP from an estimated firm‐level revenue function. We use microdata for two sectors previously identified as being significant contributors to the UK's productivity growth slowdown—m…
Stars as catalysts
There is increasing interest among policymakers in small open economies in the use of star-scientist recruitment policies to catalyse the development of local clusters in targeted research areas. We use Scopus to assemble a dataset on over 1.4 million publications and subsequent citations for Denmark, Ireland and New Zealand from 1990 to 2017. An event-study model is used to estimate the dynamic effects of a star arrival on quality-adjusted resea…
Augmenting the World Bank's estimates
Debating Austerity in Ireland
The austerity that followed the recent economic and financial crisis in has led to impassioned debates across the social sciences and the public at large. Although Ireland was not its only victim, the depth of the interacting economic, banking and budgetary crises has meant that the level of public interest has been especially intense. Among the hotly debated questions: what is austerity? Was it necessary? What have been its consequences? One of …
Brain drain or brain bank? The impact of skilled emigration on poor-country innovation
The fiscal impact of high-skilled emigration
How do spatial and social proximity influence knowledge flows? Evidence from patent data
Gone but not forgotten
We examine the role of social relationships in facilitating knowledge flows by estimating the flow premium captured by a mobile inventor's previous location. Once an inventor has moved, they are gone - but are they forgotten? We find that knowledge flows to an inventor's prior location are approximately 50% greater than if they had never lived there, suggesting that social relationships, not just physical proximity, are important for determining …
Should a Cosmopolitan Worry about the “Brain Drain”
Many developing countries are experiencing high rates of emigration of their highly skilled citizens. This essay asks if a cosmopolitan—who we take to be generally supportive of freer international migration—should worry about the adverse effects on those remaining behind in poor countries. We document the extent of skilled outflows, discuss the causes and consequences of those outflows, and offer principles to guide a cosmopolitan policy respons…
Give Us Your Best and Brightest
"Examines the political and economic implications of migrant flows from a development perspective"--Provided by publisher.
Migration's New Payoff
The Future and the Functions of Art
Futurism, in the early decades of the twentieth century, was the name given to a school of artists and poets led by Filippo Marinetti. Not to be confused with that historical movement, an important new tendency, also called futurism, is attracting support among writers, designers, architects, artists, sociologists, philosophers and others who see in the accelerated change of the present the breakdown of an old civilization and the birth pangs of …
Technological Decisions and Democracy
The future of art and mass culture
The development of art and mass culture has been closely linked both with social change and with changes in technology-particularly, though not exclusively, the technology of communications. In the recent past, for example, the recognition of a machine aesthetic and the development and widespread use of new media -radio, television, cinema, video-have strengthened these linkages. In the future, the author argues, developments in media technology …
Meeting Basic Human Needs
A new direction for more integrative development has emerged in which human needs are the centerpiece, and in which meeting the basic needs of the world's poorest is seen as the most urgent challenge. This is viewed not only as a strategy for helping the poor in the poorer nations to meet their own needs, but as part of a larger pattern of interdependent global development through which all nations may seek more diversified and sustainable direct…
The Changing Information Environment
Resource availability and growth
World Priorities
An assessment of futures studies worldwide
Women and world change
Forecasting and futures research
The changing pattern of futures research in the USA
World facts and trends
The Future of the Future
Give Us Your Best and Brightest
"Examines the political and economic implications of migrant flows from a development perspective"--Provided by publisher.
Gone but not forgotten
We examine the role of social relationships in facilitating knowledge flows by estimating the flow premium captured by a mobile inventor's previous location. Once an inventor has moved, they are gone - but are they forgotten? We find that knowledge flows to an inventor's prior location are approximately 50% greater than if they had never lived there, suggesting that social relationships, not just physical proximity, are important for determining …
How do spatial and social proximity influence knowledge flows? Evidence from patent data
Brain drain or brain bank? The impact of skilled emigration on poor-country innovation
The fiscal impact of high-skilled emigration
The Future of the Future
Should a Cosmopolitan Worry about the “Brain Drain”
Many developing countries are experiencing high rates of emigration of their highly skilled citizens. This essay asks if a cosmopolitan—who we take to be generally supportive of freer international migration—should worry about the adverse effects on those remaining behind in poor countries. We document the extent of skilled outflows, discuss the causes and consequences of those outflows, and offer principles to guide a cosmopolitan policy respons…
Migration's New Payoff
The changing pattern of futures research in the USA
Women and world change
An assessment of futures studies worldwide
Stars as catalysts
There is increasing interest among policymakers in small open economies in the use of star-scientist recruitment policies to catalyse the development of local clusters in targeted research areas. We use Scopus to assemble a dataset on over 1.4 million publications and subsequent citations for Denmark, Ireland and New Zealand from 1990 to 2017. An event-study model is used to estimate the dynamic effects of a star arrival on quality-adjusted resea…
Science, Technology, and Change
Science and technology are major change agen cies now operating on a global scale. The narrowing interval between scientific discovery, technological implementation, and social use has increased the general rate of change. Our moni toring and accounting procedures for the differential rates of such changes in various sectors of society, and for their short- and long-term consequences, are presently inadequate. The available indicators in these ar…
The Future and the Functions of Art
Futurism, in the early decades of the twentieth century, was the name given to a school of artists and poets led by Filippo Marinetti. Not to be confused with that historical movement, an important new tendency, also called futurism, is attracting support among writers, designers, architects, artists, sociologists, philosophers and others who see in the accelerated change of the present the breakdown of an old civilization and the birth pangs of …
World energy resources in the future
Big Business Enlists for the War on Poverty
World Design Science Decade, 1965-1975
Vision and Value
World Design Science Decade, 1965-1975
Science, Technology, and Change
Science and technology are major change agen cies now operating on a global scale. The narrowing interval between scientific discovery, technological implementation, and social use has increased the general rate of change. Our moni toring and accounting procedures for the differential rates of such changes in various sectors of society, and for their short- and long-term consequences, are presently inadequate. The available indicators in these ar…
World energy resources in the future
The Future of the Future
The Future of the Future
World facts and trends
The changing pattern of futures research in the USA
Women and world change
Forecasting and futures research
An assessment of futures studies worldwide
World Priorities
Technological Decisions and Democracy
The future of art and mass culture
The development of art and mass culture has been closely linked both with social change and with changes in technology-particularly, though not exclusively, the technology of communications. In the recent past, for example, the recognition of a machine aesthetic and the development and widespread use of new media -radio, television, cinema, video-have strengthened these linkages. In the future, the author argues, developments in media technology …
Meeting Basic Human Needs
A new direction for more integrative development has emerged in which human needs are the centerpiece, and in which meeting the basic needs of the world's poorest is seen as the most urgent challenge. This is viewed not only as a strategy for helping the poor in the poorer nations to meet their own needs, but as part of a larger pattern of interdependent global development through which all nations may seek more diversified and sustainable direct…
The Changing Information Environment
Resource availability and growth
The Future and the Functions of Art
Futurism, in the early decades of the twentieth century, was the name given to a school of artists and poets led by Filippo Marinetti. Not to be confused with that historical movement, an important new tendency, also called futurism, is attracting support among writers, designers, architects, artists, sociologists, philosophers and others who see in the accelerated change of the present the breakdown of an old civilization and the birth pangs of …
Migration's New Payoff
Give Us Your Best and Brightest
"Examines the political and economic implications of migrant flows from a development perspective"--Provided by publisher.
Gone but not forgotten
We examine the role of social relationships in facilitating knowledge flows by estimating the flow premium captured by a mobile inventor's previous location. Once an inventor has moved, they are gone - but are they forgotten? We find that knowledge flows to an inventor's prior location are approximately 50% greater than if they had never lived there, suggesting that social relationships, not just physical proximity, are important for determining …
Should a Cosmopolitan Worry about the “Brain Drain”
Many developing countries are experiencing high rates of emigration of their highly skilled citizens. This essay asks if a cosmopolitan—who we take to be generally supportive of freer international migration—should worry about the adverse effects on those remaining behind in poor countries. We document the extent of skilled outflows, discuss the causes and consequences of those outflows, and offer principles to guide a cosmopolitan policy respons…
The fiscal impact of high-skilled emigration
Political science (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Epistemology (4 works)