This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states' overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...

In this note, we present a novel channel for a brain gain. Students from a developing country study in a developed host country. A higher permanent migration probability of these students appears to be a brain drain for the developing country in the first place. However, it induces the host...

This work deals with the interplay of skilled worker emigration and school participation in small developing economies. We develop an Overlapping generations framework with talent heterogeneity, where agents make intertemporal decisions on schooling and emigration. The main innovation compared...