Brain Drain and LDCs' Growth: Winners and Losers

Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier and Hillel Rapoport ()

No 2002-08, Working Papers from Bar-Ilan University, Department of Economics

Abstract: We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and Detragiache, 1998), we find empirical support for the “beneficial brain drain hypothesis” in a sample of 50 developing countries. At the country-level, we distinguish between winners and losers among source countries. While the number of winners is smaller, these include nearly 80% of the total population of developing countries.

Keywords: Brain Drain; Migration; Growth; Human capital formation; Immigration policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J24 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-04
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