Brain Drain and Ldcs' Growth: Winners and Losers

By Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport. Social Science Research Network, 2003

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We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the “beneficial brain drain hypothesis” in a sample of 50 developing countries. At the country-level, we distinguish between winners and losers among source countries. While the number of winners is smaller, these include nearly 80% of the total population of developing countries.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Measuring the International Mobility of Skilled Workers (1990-2000): Release 1.0 (2004, methodology): “Beine et al (2003) used Carrington and Detragiache’s data to predict the growth impact of the brain drain.”
Migration and Development (2005, background): “Indeed, there is emerging evidence to suggest that many countries gain from the emigration of highly-skilled people (see, e. g. , Beine, Docquier and Rapoport 2003; Commander, Kangasniemi and Winters 2003).”
Migration, entrepreneurship and development: critical questions (2017, background): “For instance, migration has been established to have braindrain effects only for some of the poorest countries (Di Maria and Stryszowski 2009; Beine et al. 2008).”
Brain Gain: Claims About its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth are Greatly Exaggerated (2005, background): “If 16 Interestingly, Beine et al. (2003)’s model includes a variable representing physical capital, R&D expenditures and infrastructures.”
Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries : winners and losers (2008, methodology): “See Beine et al. (2003).”
Remittances and the Brain Drain (2006, background): “Mountford (1997), Stark et al. (1997, 1998), and Beine et al. (2001, 2003) argue that the possibility of migrating abroad raises the returns to education and may therefore boost the investment in education.”
Skilled Migration and Business Networks (2010, background): “In a global context, FDI in‡ows constitute a major source of capital accumulation and technology di¤usion in 1See Stark et al (1997, 1998), Mountford (1999), Beine et al (2001, 2003), Stark and Wang (2002). developing countries.”
Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations (2006, unknown): “In a subsequent study, Beine et al. (2003) then used the Carrington-Detragiache estimates of emigration rates for the highest (tertiary) 18 Note that Bhagwati and Hamada (1974), as well as McCulloch and Yellen (1977), did account for such incentive effects in their pioneering works.”