Beine, Michel A. R.; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2021
We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using … "beneficial brain drain hypothesis" in a cross-section of 50 developing countries. At the country-level, we find that most … brain drain. By contrast, the brain drain appears to have negative growth effects in countries where the migration rate of …