Brain drain and development traps

Jean-Pascal Benassy and Elise Brezis ()

Journal of Development Economics, 2013, vol. 102, issue C, 15-22

Abstract: This paper links the two fields of “development traps” and “brain drain”. We construct a model which integrates endogenous international migration into a simple growth model. As a result the dynamics of the economy can feature some underdevelopment traps: an economy starting with a low level of human capital can be caught in a vicious circle where low level of human capital leads to low wages, and low wages leads to emigration of valuable human capital. We also show that our model displays a rich array of different dynamic regimes, including the above traps, but other regimes as well, and we link explicitly the nature of the regimes to technology and policy parameters.

Keywords: Brain drain; Development traps; Human capital; Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J61 O11 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jdeveco.2012.11.002

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