Brain drain and Human Capital Formation in Developing Countries. Are there Really Winners?

José Groizard and Joan Llull

No 28, DEA Working Papers from Universitat de les Illes Balears, Departament d'Economía Aplicada

Abstract: We examine the empirical relationship between the migration rate of skilled workers and human capital formation in developing countries. In particular, we revisit Beine, Docquier and Rapoport (2007), who find evidence of an incentive effect. Our results suggest that an incentive effect is weak if not absent, since positive correlation among brain drain and human capital ex-ante is not robust to small changes in the specification.

Keywords: brain drain; migration; education; incentives (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F22 J24 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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