International Migration, Human Capital Formation, and the Setting of Migration-Control Policies: Mapping the Gains

Oded Stark, Alessandra Casarico, Carlo Devillanova and Silke Uebelmesser

Chapter 9 in Corruption, Development and Institutional Design, 2009, pp 169-186 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Recent research has identified conditions under which migration of human capital (skilled workers) from a developing (sending) country to a developed (receiving) country enhances human capital formation and improves wellbeing within the sending country (Mountford, 1997; Stark, Helmenstein, and Prskawetz, 1997, 1998; Stark and Wang, 2002; Fan and Stark, 2007; Stark and Fan, 2007, 2008). In contrast to earlier writings on the brain drain (for example, Patinkin, 1968; Bhagwati and Wilson, 1989), the recent contributions cast migration as a harbinger of human capital gain rather than a cause of human capital drain.

Keywords: Human Capital; International Migration; Financial Economic; Skilled Worker; Capital Gain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230242173_9

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