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International Mobility of the Highly Skilled, Endogenous R&D, and Public Infrastructure Investment
Grossmann, Volker - 2009
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 Ramp;D investment decisions we show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766531
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Job status, international migration and educational choice
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2020
We consider how the possibility of international migration affects an individual’s educational choices in their home country. Without the opportunity to emigrate abroad people choose their educational investment (and hence their skill level) as we might expect, taking into account the utility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012311042
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Regionalism in West Africa : Do Polar Countries Reap the Benefits? A Role for Migration
Konseiga, Adama - 2021
the research gap by building the first dataset on brain drain from seven countries of the western African Union (WAEMU …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318658
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Losing our minds? : new research directions on skilled migration and development
Clemens, Michael A. - 2015
This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and … proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent … literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of human capital and development, and describes five ways that research has …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307889
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Brain refrain and human capital formation in Spain
Blanco-Álvarez, Jose; Parsons, Christopher R.; Tang, … - 2022
We examine how low and high skilled internal emigration causally affect investments in human capital at origin. We provide theoretical and empirical evidence of a disincentive mechanism through which individuals refrain from education should low skilled emigration prove a viable alternative. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013273949
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Determinants of Human Capital Theory, Growth and Brain Drain : An Econometric Analysis for 77 Countries
Bildirici, Melike; Sunal, Seçkin; Aykac Alp, Elcin; … - 2008
The study aims to analyse the relation between human capital, growth and brain drain in 77 countries. These variables are also affected by numerous other variables. This study researches human capital, growth, migration, their determinant variables and the interlink ages between them. Models...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014215574
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Education, Economic Growth, and Brain Drain
Wong, Kar-yiu; Yip, Chong Kee - 1999
This paper examines how brain drain may affect the growth rate, education, and income distribution of an economy. It shows that if the engine of growth of the economy is human capital accumulation and intergenerational externality, brain drain hurts the growth rate of the economy. Brain drain...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214106
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Brain Drain and its Determinants : A Major Issue for Small States
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice W. - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states' overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324835
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Education policy, student migration, and brain gain
Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2013
In this paper, we analyse how increasing student migration from a less developed to a developed country alters education policy in the developed country, and how it affects human capital and welfare in the two countries. We argue that a higher permanent migration probability, i.e., a higher...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010202826
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Brain drain and its determinants : a major issue for small states
Beine, Michel (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states' overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003666467