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Diverging Patterns of Education Premium and School Attendance in France and the US: A Walrasian View

de la Croix, David; Docquier, Frédéric - 2003

We evaluate the effect of technology, demographics and policy on the differential evolution of the skill premium and on the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable general equilibrium model with overlapping generations of individuals, and endogenous education...

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The Dynamic Implications of Liberalizing Global Migration

Delogu, Marco - 2014

This paper quantitatively investigates the short- and long-run effects of liberalizing global migration on the world … distribution of income. We develop and parametrize a dynamic model of the world economy with endogenous migration, fertility and … are gradual and cumulative. In case of a complete liberalization, the world average level of GDP per worker increases by …

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Brain drain and its determinants: a major issue for small states

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 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...

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A gendered assessment of the brain drain

Docquier, Frédéric; Lowell, B. Lindsay; Marfouk, Abdeslam - 2007

This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. We use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of...

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Remittances, migrants' education and immigration policy: Theory and evidence from bilateral data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - 2011

We investigate the relationship between remittances and migrants' education both theoretically and empirically, using original bilateral remittance data. At a theoretical level we lay out a model of remittances interacting migrants' human capital with two dimensions of immigration policy:...

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Diasporas

Beine, Michel A. R. - 2009

Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we analyze how existing diasporas (the stock of people born in a country and living in an another one) affect the size and human-capital structure of current migration flows. Our...

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International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility

Beine, Michel A. R.; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - 2021

This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including a transfer of destination countries' fertility norms and an incentive to acquire more...

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Optimal Education Policy and Human Capital Accumulation in the Context of Brain Drain

Djajic, Slobodan; Docquier, Frédéric; Michael, Michael S. - 2018

This paper revisits the question of how brain drain affects the optimal education policy of a developing economy. Our framework of analysis highlights the complementarity between public spending on education and students' efforts to acquire human capital in response to career opportunities at...

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On the robustness of brain gain estimates

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a recent paper (Beine, Docquier and Rapoport, Economic Journal, 2008) we used the Docquier and...

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Brain Drain and LDCs? Growth: Winners and Losers

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2003

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...

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