Brain drain reversal and return subsidy

Tiantian Dai, Xiangbo Liu and Biancen Xie

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, vol. 43, issue 2, 443-455

Abstract: This paper explores how return subsidies affect an individual’s education, migration and return decisions within an asymmetric information framework. To achieve this, we develop a theoretical model in which agents are heterogeneous in their initial stocks of human capital. Our model can generate three types of migration at the same time: permanent migration, immediate return migration, and return migration with international work experience. We then examine the effects of differential return subsidies in different contexts and find that in the presence of asymmetric information, it is possible for return subsidies to play a negative role in determining a developing country’s aggregate and average human capital stock, and thus its economic growth.

Keywords: Return migration; Economic growth (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2014.03.002

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