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Brain drain or brain gain? Micro evidence from an African success story

Batista, Cátia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2007

Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the case of Cape Verde - the African country with the largest fraction of tertiary educated population...

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Testing the 'brain gain' hypothesis: Micro evidence from Cape Verde

Batista, Cátia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro C. - 2010

Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this research question. We analyze the case of Cape Verde, a country with allegedly the highest 'brain drain' in Africa, despite a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272710

Globalization, brain drain and development

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011

This paper reviews four decades of economics research on the brain drain, with a focus on recent contributions and on development issues. We first assess the magnitude, intensity and determinants of the brain drain, showing that brain drain (or high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278431

Regionalism in West Africa : Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? : A Role for Migration

Konseiga, Adama - 2005

In the present globalization era an increasing attention is paid to the ambiguous relationship between international migration, brain drain, and economic growth, but few papers analyzed the growth impact of skilled migration. The paper filled the research gap by building the first dataset on...

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On the robustness of brain gain estimates

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a recent paper (Beine, Docquier and Rapoport, Economic Journal, 2008) we used the Docquier and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269646

Financial liberalization and the brain drain: A panel data analysis

Mitra, Aniruddha; Bang, James T.; Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2011

This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an exploratory factor analysis, we are able to distinguish between two dimensions of financial...

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Research and Policy Issues in High-Skilled International Migration: A Perspective with Data from the United States

Regets, Mark C. - 2001

Highly-skilled migrants are becoming a more important part of the world economy and of policy debates in a diverse set … of countries. The proliferation of skills around the world, increases in world trade, the growth of R&D, and the general …

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Remittances and the brain drain

Faini, Riccardo - 2006

In most destination countries, immigration policies are increasingly tilted toward the most skilled individuals. Whether this shift hurts economic prospects in sending countries, as argued by the traditional brain drain literature, is somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268095

A gendered assessment of the brain drain

Docquier, Frédéric; Lowell, B. Lindsay; Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2007

. Our data set can be used to capture the recent trend in women's brain drain and to analyze its causes and consequences for … developing countries. We show that women represent an increasing share of the OECD immigration stock and exhibit relatively … educational attainment at origin. Equating women's and men's access to education would probably reduce gender differences in the …

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International mobility of the highly skilled, endogenous R&D, and public infrastructure investment

Grossmann, Volker; Stadelmann, David - 2008

This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy's income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public infrastructure investment. In a model with endogenous education and R&D investment decisions we show...

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