150 Citations
Financial Liberalization and the Brain Drain: A Panel Data Analysis
- Economics
- 2011
This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an…
High skilled emigration and human capital: A theoretical and empirical essay for the case of Middle-Income Countries
- Economics
- 2016
The aim of this paper is to investigate the effect of high-skilled emigration on human capital investment in some middle-. Hence, we extend the Solow model by taking into account the net effect of…
Brain drain and income distribution
- Economics
- 2018
In a context in which increased income inequality has raised much concern, and skilled workers move easily across countries, an important question arises: how does the brain drain affect income…
Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde
- EconomicsSSRN Electronic Journal
- 2010
INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF MIGRATION ON HUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES (1975-2000)
- Economics
- 2015
Migration of highly talented people (brain drain) has increased sharply in recent decades. In the past, it was supposed that brain drain just had negative effects on the origin countries. But, it is…
Brain Gain in the Age of Mass Migration
- Economics
- 2015
The relationship between emigration and human capital is a hotly debated issue. Nowadays discussions focus mainly on the so called brain drain, i.e. the reduction in the human capital endowment of a…
Revisiting the brain drain literature with insights from a general equilibrium world model ∗
- Economics
- 2013
The existing brain drain literature has found various mechanisms through which the high-skilled South-to-North migration affects developing economies. However, some of the newfound effects remain…
Micro evidence of the brain gain hypothesis: The case of Cape Verde
- Economics
- 2009
Does emigration really drain human capital accumulation in origin countries? This paper explores a unique household survey purposely designed and conducted to answer this specific question for the…
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On the Robustness of Brain Gain Estimates
- EconomicsSSRN Electronic Journal
- 2009
Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a…
Brain Drain and Human Capital Formation in Developing Countries: Winners and Losers
- Economics
- 2008
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 in Growth Regressions: How Much Difference Does Data Quality Make?
- Economics
- 2000
We construct a revised version of the Barro and Lee (1996) data set for a sample of OECD countries using previously unexploited sources and following a heuristic approach to obtain plausible time…
Testing the 'Brain Gain' Hypothesis: Micro Evidence from Cape Verde
- EconomicsSSRN Electronic Journal
- 2010
Growth and human capital: good data, good results
- Economics
- 2001
We present a new data set for years of schooling across countries for the 1960–2000 period. The series are constructed from the OECD database on educational attainment and from surveys published by…
Human Capital Flight: Impact of Migration on Income and Growth
- EconomicsSSRN Electronic Journal
- 1994
An endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents is analyzed to show that “human capital flight” or “brain drain” can lead to a permanent reduction in income and growth of the country of…
Skilled Emigration and Skill Creation: A Quasi-Experiment
- Economics
- 2008
Does the emigration of highly-skilled workers deplete local human capital? The answer is not obvious if migration prospects induce human capital formation. We analyze a unique natural…
A Contribution to the Empirics of Economic Growth
- Economics
- 1990
This paper examines whether the Solow growth model is consistent with the international variation in the standard of living. It shows that an augmented Solow model that includes accumulation of human…