Brain drain and economic growth: theory and evidence

By Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport. 2001

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Impact of remittances on economic growth and poverty reduction amongst CIS countries (2019, background): “Beine, Docquier, and Rapoport (2001), using panel data for 127 countries, showed that countries with initially low levels of human capital and low migration rates enjoy from higher human capital stock growth rates.”
The Brain Drain: Curse or Boon? (2003, positive): “From there, the predominant approach – Mountford (1997), Stark, Helmenstein and Prskawetz (1998), Vidal (1998) and Beine, Docquier and Rapaport (2001a) – has been to assume that there is uncertainty about the ability to migrate, so that of N who acquire education only pN (p < 1) actually emigrate.”
Bringing It All Back Home – Return Migration and Fertility Choices (2015, background): “2012. halshs-00659292 CERDI, Etudes et Documents, E 2012.01”
Higher education and economic growth in Africa (2006, background): “Rogers (2003) and Beine et al. (2001) argue that the reason some researchers find no relationship between education human capital and economic growth is that they do not account for employment in rent seeking activities or emigration of educated people.”
Female Migration: A Way Out of Discrimination (2015, background): “Another channel through which migration might influence empowerment is the brain gain mechanism: migration prospects have been shown to increase the incentive to invest in education (Beine, Docquier, and Rapoport, 2001), thereby also raising female empowerment.”
Migration selectivity and the evolution of spatial inequality (2005, background): “The first study to attempt at estimating the growth effects of the brain drain is due to Beine et al. (2001); in a cross-section of 37 developing countries, they found that migration prospects have a positive and significant impact on human capital formation, especially for countries with low…”
Income Maximization and the Selection and Sorting of International Migrants (2011, positive): “Beine et al. (2007) provide evidence on this point in the form of immigrant counts for those with tertiary education that vary by the age at which migrants arrived in the destination country (any age, 12 years or older, 18 years or older, 22 years or older).”
Brain Drain in Developing Countries (2007, background): “1 See Commander et al (2004), Docquier and Rapoport (2004) and Beine et al. (2001, 2006). See Schiff (2005) for a critical appraisal of this literature.”
International Migration and the Developing World (2010, background): “(7) and, using data from Beine et al. (2006a), find that the bilateral flow of more educated migrants (relative to less educated migrants) is increasing in the destination-country earnings gap between high-income and low-income workers.”
Education, migration, and job satisfaction: The regional returns of human capital in the EU. Bruges European Economic Research (BEER) Papers 1/November 2004 (2004, background): “Beine, Docquier, and Rapoport (2001), for example, analyse the relationship between migration, human capital, and growth in an open developing economy.”
Migration of Highly Skilled Persons From Developing Countries: Impact and Policy Responses (2016, neutral): “11 Beine et al., 1999.”