Michel, BEINE; Frédéric, DOCQUIER; Hillel, RAPOPORT - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2006
The brain drain has long been viewed as a serious constraint on poor countries development. However, recent theoretical … literature suggests that emigration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and foster investment in education … at home. This paper takes advantage of a new dataset on emigration rates by education level (Docquier and Marfouk, 2006 …