Migration, Human Capital Formation and Growth: an Empirical Investigation

Corrado Di Maria and Emiliya Lazarova

No 10-03, Economics Working Papers from Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast

Abstract: In this empirical investigation we study the effect of skilled emigration on human capital formation and growth in a sample of developing countries. We find that the migration rate exerts statistically significant effects on both the level and the skill composition of human capital. We also show that these migration-induced changes in the formation of human capital affect the growth performance of sending countries. The sign and the magnitude of these effects are shown to depend on the level of economic development of the sending country. Both the least and the most developed countries in our sample would suffer as a result of an increase in skilled migration, while countries at intermediate stages of development may benefit. Overall, the majority of sending countries are shown to lose from migration, and the losses that accrue to the least developed ones are larger than the benefits for the winners.

Keywords: Education; Brain Drain; Migration; Human Capital; Economic Growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 I28 J24 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2010
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