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Informality and Long-Run Growth
Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010733809
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Do brain drain and poverty result from coordination failures?
Croix, David; Docquier, Frédéric - In: Journal of Economic Growth 17 (2012) 1, pp. 1-26
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010863472
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Are Skilled Women More Migratory than Skilled Men?
Docquier, Frédéric; Marfouk, Abdeslam; Salomone, Sara; … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 2, pp. 251-265
This paper empirically studies emigration patterns of skilled males and females. In the most relevant model accounting for interdependencies between women and men’s decisions, we derive the gendered responses to traditional push factors. Females and males do not respond with the same intensity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010577456
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 2014
emigration (as measured by the general emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development (as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010904608
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The brain drain from developing countries
Docquier, Frédéric - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) May, pp. 1-10
The proportion of foreign-born people in rich countries has tripled since 1960, and the emigration of high-skilled people from poor countries has accelerated. Many countries intensify their efforts to attract and retain foreign students, which increases the risk of brain drain in the sending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884438
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Migration and Development: Dissecting the Anatomy of the Mobility Transition
Dao, Thu Hien; Docquier, Frédéric; Parsons, Christopher; … - 2016
Emigration first increases before decreasing with economic development. This bell-shaped relationship between … emigration and development was first hypothesized by the theory of the mobility transition (Zelinsky, 1971). Although several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559700
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Brain drain in globalization: a general equilibrium analysis from the sending countries' perspective
Marchiori, Luca; Shen, I-ling; Docquier, Frédéric - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269352
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The brain drain from developing countries
Docquier, Frédéric - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
The proportion of foreign-born people in rich countries has tripled since 1960, and the emigration of high-skilled people from poor countries has accelerated. Many countries intensify their efforts to attract and retain foreign students, which increases the risk of brain drain in the sending...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404860
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Informality and Long-Run Growth
Docquier, Frédéric; Müller, Tobias; Naval, Joaquín - 2014
path. Hence, we examine the effectiveness of different development policies to exit the poverty trap. Our numerical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328942
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Emigration and democracy
Docquier, Frédéric; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Rapoport, … - 2016
International migration is an important determinant of institutions, not considered so far in the development … emigration (as measured by the natives' average emigration rate) has a positive effect on home-country institutional development … regressions.Keywords: Migration; Institutions; Democracy; Development. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014000818