The Economic Impact of Medical Migration: a Receiving CountryÕs Perspective

Martine Rutten

No 20070804, IIDE Discussion Papers from Institue for International and Development Economics

Abstract: This paper seeks to determine the macro-economic impacts of migration of skilled medical personnel from a receiving countryÕs perspective, taking the UK as an archetype OECD economy that imports medical services. The resource allocation issues have been explored in theory, by further developing the Rybczynski theorem and empirically, using a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model with an extended health component. The main finding is that importing foreign doctors and nurses into the UK yields higher overall welfare gains compared to a generic increase in the NHS budget. Welfare gains rise in the case of wage protection.

Keywords: medical migration; immigrant health care workers; migrant nurses; migrant doctors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 I1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 65 pages
Date: 2007-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cmp, nep-hea, nep-lab and nep-mig
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Journal Article: The Economic Impact of Medical Migration: A Receiving Country's Perspective (2009)
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