Globalization has led to a vast flow of migration of workers but also of students. The purpose of this paper is to … analyze the migration of individuals encompassing decisions already at the level of education. We present a "unified brain …" drain model that incorporates the decisions of an individual related to migration vis‐à‐vis both education and work. In the …

Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … sub-optimal. With an increase in globalization, the brain drain strategy will be replaced by the strategy of migration of … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and …

Over the past decades, globalization has led to a huge increase in the migration of workers, as well as students. This … suboptimal. With an increase in globalization, the brain drain strategy will be replaced by the strategy of migration of students. … paper develops a simple two-step model that describes the decisions of an individual vis-à-vis education and migration, and …

migration, I develop a model of migration, which combines the two migration decisions into a unique model - decisions about … solution. But, when we incorporate "brain waste" and "return migration", then it is optimal to migrate when young. …

This paper sheds a new perspective on models of migration by integrating in a same structure the decisions about … education and work; and by incorporating return migration with "brain waste". Brain waste is defined as the depreciation, due to … migration, in the human capital acquired in the home country. This paper shows that brain waste, and return migration have …

effects of skilled migration. It then proposes a new kind of ex ante public-private agreement to link skill formation and … skilled migration for the mutual benefit of origin countries, destination countries, and migrants: ‘Global Skill Partnerships …

recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the … countries combining low levels of human capital and low migration rates of skilled workers tend to be positively affected by the … brain drain. By contrast, the brain drain appears to have negative growth effects in countries where the migration rate of …