Physician Brain Drain: Does Health Expenditure Matter?

Uwaoma G. Nwaogu
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Uwaoma G. Nwaogu: Central College

Journal of Economic Insight, 2016, vol. 42, issue 1, 61-79

Abstract: Although previous research on migration has documented skilled migrants’ cross-border activities very few empirical studies have examined physician migration. In recent years, the migration of physicians from developing to developed countries has received a great deal of attention and raised much concern. In this study, a gravity model and the Poisson pseudo-maximum-likelihood (PPML) estimator was used to examine the impact of various health expenditure variables on physician migration to the United States. The empirical results show that inadequate total expenditure on health, as well as inadequate government and private expenditure on health, encourage physicians from developing countries to migrate to the United States.

JEL-codes: F2 F22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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