Literature Review #4

Citation
Li,Tang/ "Relationship between Economic Activity Population in OECD Countries." ProQuest, 8 July 2014, search-proquest-com.proxy.libraries.rutgers.edu/docview/1564239153?pq-origsite=primo.
Summary 
This article talks about the trend of international students enrolled in tertiary education among the OECD countries from 1975 to 2011. The relationship between the level of economic activity and the size of the international student population plays a role in GDP per capita and real wages. This study not only mentions that economic has been grew in a better education resources and quality as well as better job market due to the decisions of international student in terms of where to apply but also points out that the policy makers should relax their immigration policy to fulfill increasing demand of international students. 
Author

Tang Li studied Chinese bibliographical, textual studies, Chinese painting during the Ming and Qing periods, library collection development and management and digital humanities. In this article, she focused on the relationship between recipient countries' economic conditions and the inflows of international students where she wants this study may help policy makers to better redesign and monitor their temporary and permanent immigration policies.
Key terms
"GDP per capita"
: a measure of a country's economic output that accounts for its number of people. It divides the country's gross domestic product by its total population. 
→ "Real wage"
:the amount of goods and services that a worker purchases from his/her nominal wages
→ "International students"
→ "Immigration policy" 

Three Quotes
"In most OECD countries, international students pay much higher tuition compared to domestic students. This becomes meaningful when an economic downturn cuts government funds for higher education and education institutions face adverse domestic demographic trends in terms of the number of potential students" (2). 

"Economic activity, in the form of GDP per capita or real wages, is positively related to the size of the international student population, both in absolute and in relative terms, which confirms my first hypothesis that higher GDP per capita in a developed country is associated with more international students applying and looking to study in that, holding everything else constant" (27).

"Page confirms this through the estimation that in the 50s, 110,000 international students were enrolled globally. By the beginning of 2000, the number of international students has risen to approximately 1.9 million, and in 2004, the numbers was 2.7 million, an increase of 200% since 1985. These figures are expected to rise to 8 million in 2020. In 2005, approximately 49% of international students came from Asian countries. The increase in demand for international education has resulted in certain countries that are English-speaking to take advantage of their well-developed higher education and other services that are knowledge-based" (6) 

Value 
This article may be useful for my final research paper since it talks about how the population of international student affect the economic growth in OECD countries. 

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