Measuring the International Mobility of Skilled Workers (1990–2000): Release 1.0

Docquier, Fredérić; Marfouk, Addeslam

doi:10.1596/1813-9450-3381

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“…As a rule of thumb, remittances obtained from the BOP equal 1.5 times those obtained from the household survey, with a correlation of .90 (Acosta, Calderon Fajnzylber and Lopez, 2006a). Nevertheless, a given country may be an outlier, so one may check also with other sources, for example a comprehensive estimate of bilateral stocks of migrants for 226 countries and territories compiled by Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP, 2005), the OECD's Database on Immigrants and Expatriates (OECD, 2005) containing detailed information on the foreign-born population for almost all member countries of the OECD, the Docquier and Marfouk (2004) as well as Beine, Docquier and Rapoport (2006) databases on migration by education (and age of entry) from developing countries to OECD countries or Bhargava and Docquier (2006) Database on the International Migration of Physicians. These figures should provide a first glance at the extent of migration.…”

Section: Gauging the Importance Of Migrationmentioning

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Migration, remittances, poverty, and human capital : conceptual and empirical challenges

McKenzie¹,

Sasin²

2007

Policy Research Working Papers

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***This paper reviews common challenges faced by researchers interested in measuring the impact of migration and remittances on income poverty, inequality and human capital (or, in general, "welfare") as well as difficulties confronting development practitioners in converting this research into policy advice.On the analytical side, the paper discusses the proper formulation of a research question, the choice of the analytical tools as well as the interpretation of the results, in the presence of pervasive endogeneity in all decisions surrounding migration. Particular attention is given to the use of instrumental variables in migration research.On the policy side, the paper argues that the private nature of migration and remittances implies a need to carefully spell out the rationale for interventions. It also notices the lack of good migration data and proper evaluations of migration-related government policies.The paper focuses mainly on microeconomic evidence about international migration, but much of the discussion extends to other settings as well.

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Section: Gauging the Importance Of Migrationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Migration, remittances, poverty, and human capital : conceptual and empirical challenges

McKenzie¹,

Sasin²

2007

Policy Research Working Papers

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“…We then derive an empirical equation of remittances and estimate it on a large panel of developing countries. As a measure of the brain drain, we use the dataset by Docquier and Marfouk (2004) that in turn builds on the pioneering work of Carrington and Detragiache (2004). We find considerable evidence that the brain drain is associated with a smaller flow of remittances.…”

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“…Thanks however to the pioneering work of Carrington and Detragiache (1998) and the contribution of Docquier and Marfouk (2004), this gap is now being filled. Carrington and Detragiache (1998) rely on the 1990 US census to estimate the number of skilled migrants to the US from a large set of sending countries.…”

Section: Remittances and The Brain Drain: Econometric Evidencementioning

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Remittances and the Brain Drain

Faini¹

2006

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in Remittances and the Brain Drain Riccardo Faini D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E S ABSTRACT Remittances and the Brain Drain *In most destination countries, immigration policies are increasingly tilted toward the most skilled individuals. Whether this shift hurts economic prospects in sending countries, as argued by the traditional brain drain literature, is somewhat controversial. The most recent literature has focused on the link between skilled out-migration and educational achievements. In this paper, we emphasize a different channel. It is often argued that skilled migrants raise economic welfare at home thanks to a relatively larger flow of remittances. Skilled migrants typically earn relatively more and, ceteris paribus, will therefore remit more. However, they are also likely to spend a longer span of time abroad and also are more likely to reunite with their close family in the host country. Both factors should be associated with a relatively smaller flow of remittances from skilled migrants. Hence, the sign of the impact of the brain drain on total remittances is an empirical question. We first develop a simple model showing that skilled migrants may have indeed a lower propensity to remit home out of a given flow of earnings abroad. We then derive an empirical equation of remittances and estimate it on a large panel of developing countries. As a measure of the brain drain, we use the dataset by Docquier and Marfouk (2004) that in turn builds on the pioneering work of Carrington and Detragiache (2004). We find considerable evidence that the brain drain is associated with a smaller flow of remittances.JEL Classification: F02, F22

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“…Instead, Nicholas P. Glytsos (2010), analyzing the case of Bulgaria and Albania, found that these countries were marked to a great extent by substantial volumes of highly educated population leaving the country. In fact, these two countries have also been analyzed earlier (Docquier & Marfouk, 2004) who calculated that skilled emigration rate in 2000 was 20% for Albania and 5.8% for Bulgaria.…”

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Brain Drain Migration from Romanian Academia. The End of a Mirage

Panzaru

Reisz

2017

European Review of Applied Sociology

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The article is focused on the image of migration that Romanian academics transmit through the invisible curricula of the universities. These opinions are bound to become vectors of the future behaviour of graduates and legitimate a certain approach to brain drain. The goal of the research was to find how opinions and intentions on migration changed between 2000 and 2013 and what possible explanations can be found for these changes. The analysed data were collected in two sample surveys, one conducted in 2000 and another one in 2013. The results clearly show that there is an impressive change in the interest of Romanian academics to emigrate. Information and personal experience on migration and international mobility have become pervasive in the higher education system. Migration as a mirage, as a temptation not fully understood, does not exist anymore in Romanian higher education.

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Measuring the International Mobility of Skilled Workers (1990–2000): Release 1.0

Cited by 162 publications

References 22 publications

Migration, remittances, poverty, and human capital : conceptual and empirical challenges

Migration, remittances, poverty, and human capital : conceptual and empirical challenges

Remittances and the Brain Drain

Brain Drain Migration from Romanian Academia. The End of a Mirage

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