Skilled Migration: The Perspective of Developing Countries

By Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport. Social Science Research Network, 2004

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This chapter focuses on the effects of skilled migration on developing countries. We first present new evidence on the magnitude of the “brain drain” at the international level. Using a stylized model of education investment in a contest of migration, we then survey the theoretical and empirical brain drain literature in a unified framework. Finally we use a particular specification of the model to discuss a number of policy issues from the perspective of developing countries

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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A Panel Data Analysis of the Brain Gain (2011, background): “2Surveys of the literature can be found in Commander et al. (2004) or Docquier and Rapoport (2009).”
Brain Gain: Claims About its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth are Greatly Exaggerated (2005, methodology): “…literature include Mountford (1997), Stark et al. (1997, 1998), Stark and Wang (2002), Stark (2004), Stark et al. (2004), Beine et al. (2001, 2003), Docquier and Rapoport (2004), and Vidal (1998).4 Their work has led to a reconsideration of the impact of the brain drain on the number of skilled…”
Migration and Education (2011, unknown): “In an early paper, Dustmann (1993) uses this information to estimate earnings profiles of immigrants.”
Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries : winners and losers (2008, background): “See Commander et al. (2004) and Docquier and Rapoport (2004) for recent surveys of this literature.”
Migration Remittances and Development: A Review of Global Evidence (2006, background): “Worldwide, average emigration rates amount to 5.5% for high-skill workers, compared to less than 1% for low-skill ones (Docquier and Rapoport, 2004a, b).”
Brain Drain in Developing Countries (2007, methodology): “1997 or Beine, Docquier and Rapoport 2001, 2006). The risk of a reverse causality is important and requires using instrumentation techniques. We also consider the log of the Gross National Income (GNI) per capita in purchasing power parity, a dummy equal to one for the least developed countries and ”
International Migration and the Developing World (2010, background): “While there is a large body of theoretical literature on the taxation of skilled emigration (e.g., Bhagwati & Hamada, 1974; Bhagwati & Wilson, 1989; Docquier & Rapoport, 2007), empirical research on the subject is sparse.”