Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus … impact of brain drain migration on gross (pre-migration) human capital formation in developing countries. We found a positive … effect of skilled migration prospects on human capital growth in a cross-section of 127 developing countries, with an …

, the process of domestic accumulation of HC might be affected in several ways through migration and capital inflows …

for triggering or avoiding brain drain and compare education policies and migration patterns in non-cooperative political … migration. This is not necessarily desirable from the point of view of a social planner who takes account of the interests of …

origin countries, it also induces positive effects through various channels such as remittances, return migration, diaspora … praise the unambiguous benefits of unskilled migration for developing countries, my analysis suggests that a limited but …

Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which …

Two trends in international migration flows have attracted much attention recently: (i) the growing feminisation of … migration flows; and (ii) the increasing selectivity of migration towards the highly skilled, which in turn has given rise to … shows that female migration to OECD countries has been increasing significantly in recent decades, so that migrant stocks …

This chapter focuses on the effects of skilled migration on developing countries. We first present new evidence on the … migration, we then survey the theoretical and empirical brain drain literature in a unified framework. Finally we use a …