Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries. Winners and losers.

Autor/inn/en	Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frederic; Rapoport, Hillel
Institution	Université Catholique (Louvain). Département des Sciences Economiques
Titel	Brain drain and human capital formation in developing countries. Winners and losers. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Brain Drain und Humankapitalbildung in Entwicklungsländern. Gewinner und Verlierer.
Quelle	Louvain (2006), 33 S.; 806 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper / Universite Catholique Louvain, Departement des Sciences Economiques. 2006-23
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bevölkerungsstruktur; Entwicklungsland; Inländer; Humankapital; Investition; Qualifikationsstruktur; Brain Drain; Internationaler Vergleich; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Hoch Qualifizierter
Abstract	"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 empirically investigates how these positive and negative effects balance out. Using recent data on emigration rates by education levels, we find evidence of a positive effect of skilled migration prospects on pre-migration human capital levels in a cross-section of 127 developing countries. For each country we then estimate the net effect of the brain drain using counterfactual simulations. We find that countries combining relatively low levels of human capital and low skilled emigration rates are likely to experience a net gain, and conversely. There appears to be more losers than winners, and in addition the former tend to lose relatively more than what the latter gain. At an aggregate level however, and given that the largest developing countries are all among the winners, brain drain migration may be seen not only as increasing the number of skilled workers worldwide but also the number of such workers living in developing countries." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Querschnitt. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1990 bis 2000. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2008/1