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A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain

Docquier, Frédéric; Marfouk, Marfouk; Lowell, B. Lindsay - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

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 schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000 … higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated with the gender gap in …

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The Labor Market Effects of Immigration and Emigration in OECD Countries

Docquier, Frédéric; Ozden, Caglar; Peri, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper, we simulate the labor market effects of net immigration and emigration during the 1990's in all OECD countries. To accomplish this, we are the first to employ a comprehensive database of migrant stocks, grouped by education level and country of origin/destination, for the years...

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Remittances, Migrants' Education and Immigration Policy: Theory and Evidence from Bilateral Data

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel; Salomone, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations

Docquier, Frédéric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants and the way it affects the well-being of those left behind. First, I present alternative...

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Brain Drain in Developing Regions (1990-2000)

Docquier, Frédéric; Lohest, Olivier; Marfouk, Abdeslam - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper, we analyze the distribution of the brain drain in the LAC region (Latin America and the Caribbean), Asia and Africa. We rely on an original data set on international migration by educational attainment for 1990 and 2000. Our analysis reveals that the brain drain is strong in...

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Brain Drain and its Determinants: A Major Issue for Small States

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Measuring Skilled Emigration Rates: The Case of Small States

Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Recent changes in information and communication technologies (ICT) have contributed to a dramatic increase in the integration and interdependence of countries, markets and people. This paper focuses on an increasingly important aspect of globalization, the international movement of people, with...

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Brain Drain and LDCs’ Growth: Winners and Losers

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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Brain Drain in Globalization: A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective

Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-Ling; Docquier, Frédéric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework characterized by overlapping-generations dynamics and calibrated to real data, this study incorporates...

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On the Robustness of Brain Gain Estimates

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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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