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Testing the ‘brain gain’ hypothesis: Micro evidence from Cape Verde

Batista, Catia; Lacuesta, Aitor; Vicente, Pedro C. - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 1, pp. 32-45

Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey designed and conducted to answer this research question. We analyze the case of Cape Verde, a country with allegedly the highest ‘brain drain’ in Africa, despite a...

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Brain drain and development traps

Bénassy, Jean-Pascal; Brezis, Elise S. - In: Journal of Development Economics 102 (2013) C, pp. 15-22

This paper links the two fields of “development traps” and “brain drain”. We construct a model which integrates endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some underdevelopment traps: an economy starting with a low...

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Multilateral resistance to migration

Bertoli, Simone; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - In: Journal of Development Economics 102 (2013) C, pp. 79-100

The rate of migration observed between two countries does not depend solely on their relative attractiveness, but also on the one of alternative destinations. Following the trade literature, we term the influence exerted by other destinations on bilateral flows as Multilateral Resistance to...

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Understanding different migrant selection patterns in rural and urban Mexico

Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús - In: Journal of Development Economics 103 (2013) C, pp. 182-201

a direct comparison to non-migrants. This dataset presents a relevant dichotomy: it shows negative selection for urban …

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Crossing the border: Self-selection, earnings and individual migration decisions

Bertoli, S.; Fernández-Huertas Moraga, J.; Ortega, F. - In: Journal of Development Economics 101 (2013) C, pp. 75-91

We analyze an international migration episode for which we are able to gather individual-level data covering all relevant countries, namely the exodus of Ecuadorians to Spain and the US in the aftermath of the economic collapse of 1999. Specifically, we produce selection-corrected predictions of...

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Migration networks as a response to financial constraints: Onset, and endogenous dynamics

Stark, Oded; Jakubek, Marcin - In: Journal of Development Economics 101 (2013) C, pp. 1-7

-constrained individuals who seek to finance and expedite their migration. The cooperation agreement creates a network: “established” migrants … to study cooperation between more than two migrants, it emerges that there is a finite optimal size of the migration … network. Consequently, would-be migrants in the sending country will form a multitude of networks, rather than a single grand …

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Wages and health worker retention: Evidence from public sector wage reforms in Ghana

Antwi, James; Phillips, David C. - In: Journal of Development Economics 102 (2013) C, pp. 101-115

tend to migrate. Given that Ghana was a major source of skilled health professional migrants during this period and that …

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Do high-income or low-income immigrants leave faster?

Bijwaard, Govert E.; Wahba, Jackline - In: Journal of Development Economics 108 (2014) C, pp. 54-68

We estimate the impact of the income earned in the host country on return migration of labor migrants from developing … to The Netherlands. The empirical results show that intensities of return migration are U-shaped with respect to migrants …

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A land of milk and honey with streets paved with gold: Do emigrants have over-optimistic expectations about incomes abroad?

McKenzie, David; Gibson, John; Stillman, Steven - In: Journal of Development Economics 102 (2013) C, pp. 116-127

Millions of people emigrate every year in search of better opportunities. Anecdotes of emigrants with over-optimistic expectations about the incomes they can earn abroad suggest excessive migration pressure. Yet there is almost no statistical evidence on how accurately emigrants predict the...

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International migration, imperfect information, and brain drain

Dequiedt, Vianney; Zenou, Yves - In: Journal of Development Economics 102 (2013) C, pp. 62-78

, firms statistically dicriminate highly-skilled migrants by paying them at their expected productivity. The decision of … whether to migrate or not depends on the proportion of highly-skilled workers among the migrants. The migration game exhibits … migrants themselves. We also analyze under which conditions there is positive or negative self-selection of migrants. …

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