Quantifying the impact of highly-skilled emigration on developing countries.

Autor/inn/en	Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel
Titel	Quantifying the impact of highly-skilled emigration on developing countries. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Quantifizierung des Einflusses der Emigration Hochqualifizierter auf Entwicklungsländer.
Quelle	Aus: Boeri, Tito (Hrsg.); Brücker, Herbert (Hrsg.); Docquier, Frédéric (Hrsg.); Rapoport, Hillel (Hrsg.): Brain drain and brain gain. The global competition to attract high-skilled migrants. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2012) S. 209-296Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Reports for the Fondazione Rodolfo DeBenedetti
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-0-19-965482-6
Schlagwörter	Entwicklungsland; Migration; Volkswirtschaftliche Kosten; Ökonomische Determinanten; Qualifikationsstruktur; Statistik; Brain Drain; Überweisung; Arzt; Hoch Qualifizierter; Wissenschaftler; Herkunftsland
Abstract	Part II first provides (in Chapter 8) a quantitative assessment of the evolution and spatial distribution of the brain drain using updated data an emigration rates to the OECD by educational attainment. We expand the coverage of the database by introducing non-OECD host countries, study the age of entry structure of skilled emigration, and document the brain drain of scientists and of health-care professionals. In Chapter 9 we review the channels through which skilled emigration can affect the source countries. In particular, recent literature suggests that remittances, return migration, diaspora externalities, and network effects favouring international transactions and technology diffusion, as well as brain gain channels, may compensate the sending countries for their loss of human capital. We divide these channels into 'human capital', 'screening-selection', 'productivity', and 'institutional' channels, and also analyse the links between brain drain and remittances. The development of a simple partial equilibrium model allows us to combine these various channels in an integrated setting. Using numerical experiments and parameters taken from existing empirical studies, we then quantify the costs and gains of the brain drain for developing countries and analyse how these balance out. (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2013/1