Return migration as channel of brain gain.

Autor/inn/en	Peri, Giovanni; Mayr, Karin
Institution	Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (London)
Titel	Return migration as channel of brain gain. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Rückwanderung als Ursache von brain gain.
Quelle	London (2008), 53 S.; 611 KB PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CReAM discussion paper. 04/08
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
Schlagwörter	Bildungsniveau; Asien; Modell; Motivation; Lateinamerika; Osteuropa; USA; Auswirkung; Migration; Bildungsniveau; Herkunftsland; Humankapital; Motivation; Migration; Remigration; Rückkehrbereitschaft; Humankapital; Ökonomische Determinanten; Arbeitsmarktentwicklung; Brain Drain; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Modell; Hoch Qualifizierter; Asien; Herkunftsland; Lateinamerika; Osteuropa; USA
Abstract	"Recent theoretical and empirical studies have emphasized the fact that the prospect of international migration increases the expected returns to skills in poor countries, linking the possibility of migrating (brain drain) with incentives to higher education (brain gain). If emigration is uncertain and some of the highly educated remain, such a channel may, at least in part, counterbalance the negative effects of brain drain. Moreover, recent empirical evidence seems to show that temporary migration is widespread among highly skilled migrants (such as Eastern Europeans in Western Europe and Asians in the U.S.). This paper develops a simple tractable overlapping generations model that provides an economic rationale for return migration and which predicts who will migrate and who will return among agents with heterogeneous abilities. We use parameter values from the literature and the data on return migration to calibrate our model and simulate and quantify the effects of increased openness on human capital and wages of the sending countries. We find that, for plausible values of the parameters, the return migration channel is very important and combined with the incentive channel reverses the brain drain into significant brain gain for the sending country." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse; Längsschnitt; Querschnitt; Theoriebildung; Grundlagenforschung. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1975 bis 2005. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2009/3