International migration and economic growth: a source country perspective

Abstract

Migration, Brain drain, Economic growth, F22, J24, O15,

Factors influencing career location preferences of international graduate students in the United States

“…Migration of these two groups of skilled labor is a concern to both sending and receiving countries (Kwok and Leland 1982;Castle and Miller 2003;Chen 2006;Mariani 2007). Focusing on the second group of people, this study identifies factors influencing preferences of international graduate students in the United States as to where they prefer to start their professional careers -in the United States or in their home country.…”

Migration and Human Capital in an Endogenous Fertility Model

“…3 When having reached adulthood, people migrate with a certain probability and we show that brain drain leads to a change in the skill-composition of children. This is another distinct feature from Chen (2006), in which migration needs to be random to affect fertility choices. We find that additional high skilled migration induces both high-and low-skilled parents to provide higher education to a larger number of their children, because the increased opportunity for high skilled to migrate raises the expected income of high skilled children.…”

“…Mountford and Rapoport (2007) develop a twocountry growth model with endogenous fertility to examine the impact of brain drain on the world distribution of income and population. The aim and approach of our study are however more closely related to Chen (2006) who also focuses on migrants' sending countries.…”

“…Since educational investment is transformed into human capital, it typically follows that individuals are characterized by a uniform level of human capital. This is, in particular, the case in Chen (2006). 2 In reality and particularly in developing economies, parents are not necessarily able to support every child's higher education.…”

Migration, Congestion, and Growth

“…Within this context, it has also been argued that, although a brain gain may happen in the short run, relaxation of restrictions on the emigration of high-skilled workers will damage the economic growth a source country in the long run (Chen, 2006). In Azarnert (2012), I…”