Ability drain: Size, impact, and comparison with brain drain under alternative immigration policies.

Autor/in	Schiff, Maurice
Titel	Ability drain: Size, impact, and comparison with brain drain under alternative immigration policies. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Abwanderung von Qualifizierten.
Quelle	In: Journal of population economics, 30 (2017) 4, S. 1337-1354 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0176-1714; 0933-1433; 1432-1475
DOI	10.1007/s00148-017-0644-1
Schlagwörter	Kognitive Kompetenz; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Arbeitserlaubnis; Entwicklungsland; Industriestaat; Migrationshintergrund; Konsum; Qualifikationsniveau; Schlüsselqualifikation; Brain Drain; Auswahlverfahren; Rekrutierung; Arbeitnehmer; Migrant; Australien; Herkunftsland; Kanada; Neuseeland; USA
Abstract	"Ability drain's (AD) impact seems economically significant, with 30% of US Nobel laureates since 1906 being immigrants, and immigrants or their children founding 40% of Fortune 500 companies. Nonetheless, while brain drain (BD) and gain (BG) have been studied extensively, AD has not. I examine migration's impact on ability (a), education (h), and productive human capital or 'skill' s =s(a,? h), for source country residents and migrants under; (a) the points system (PS) which accounts for h and; (b) the 'vetting' system (VS) which accounts for s (e.g., US H-1B program). The findings are as follows: (i) Migration reduces (raises) residents' (migrants') average ability, with an ambiguous (positive) impact on average education and skill, and net skill drain, SD, likelier than net BD; (ii) these effects increase with ability's inequality or variance, are greater under VS than PS, and hurt source countries; (iii) the model and two empirical studies suggest average AD?=? BD for educated US immigrants, with real income about twice the home country income; and; (iv) SD holds for any BD and for a very small AD (7.4% of our estimate). Policy implications are provided." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2018/1