Count-data Analysis of physician Emigration from Developing Countries: A Note

Elsy Thomas kizhakethalackal (), Debasri Mukherjee () and Eskander Alvi ()
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Elsy Thomas kizhakethalackal: Bowling Green State University
Eskander Alvi: western michigan university

Economics Bulletin, 2015, vol. 35, issue 2, 1177-1184

Abstract: This paper examines possible determinants of physicians' emigration from a wide set of developing countries, using count data analysis. We find that standard-of-living, health-infrastructure, and workload in source countries play important roles in such medical brain drain. Also the emigration culture, governance and colonial history of the sending country affect such expatriation. Better health-infrastructure, work environment as well as strict anti-emigration policies can help reduce such important brain-drain for developing countries.

Keywords: Physician-emigration; medical brain drain; health-infrastructure; count data regression (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F2 I0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-05-14
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