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

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

capital with two dimensions of immigration policy: restrictiveness, and selectivity. The model predicts that the relationship … between remittances and migrants' education is ambiguous and depends on the immigration policy conducted at destination. The … effect of education is more likely to be positive when the immigration policy is more restrictive and less skill …

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Brain Drain and LDCs' Growth: Winners and Losers

Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2002

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 sample...

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Documenting the brain drain of "la crème de la crème": Three case-studies on international migration at the upper tail of the education distribution

Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2009

Most of the recent literature on the effects of the brain drain on source countries consists of theoretical papers and cross-country empirical studies. In this paper we complement the literature through three case studies on very different regional and professional contexts: the African medical...

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Do emigrants self-select along cultural traits? Evidence from the MENA countries

Docquier, Frédéric; Tansel, Aysit; Turati, Riccardo - 2017

This paper empirically investigates whether emigrants from MENA countries self-select on cultural traits such as religiosity and gender-egalitarian attitudes. To do so, we use Gallup World Poll data on individual opinions and beliefs, migration aspirations, short-run migration plans, and...

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