Brain drain, remittances, and fertility.

Autor/inn/en	Marchiori, Luca; Pieretti, Patrice; Zou, Benteng
Titel	Brain drain, remittances, and fertility.
Quelle	Bielefeld: Inst. of Mathematical Economics, IMW (2008), 30 S., 286 KB PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Working papers /Institute of Mathematical Economics. 408
Beigaben	grafische Darstellungen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie; Graue Literatur
URN	urn:nbn:de:hbz:361-14173
Schlagwörter	Generation; Familienplanung; Fruchtbarkeit; Entwicklungsland; Industriestaat; Facharbeiter; Akademikerberuf; Brain Drain; Rücküberweisung; Arbeitspapier; Migrant
Abstract	This paper analyzes the effects of skilled migration and remittances on fertility decisions at origin. We develop an overlapping generations model which accounts for endogenous fertility and education. Parents choose the number of children they want to raise and decide upon how many children obtain higher education. Only high skilled individuals migrate with a certain probability and remit to their parents. We find that an increase in the probability to emigrate leads both high and low skilled parents to send more children to obtain higher education. However the effect on the number of children is ambiguous. In a further analysis, we calibrate the model to match different characteristics of a developing economy. When the destination country relaxes the immigration restrictions, more high skilled individuals leave the origin country. The result is that, at origin, increased high skilled emigration reduces fertility and fosters human capital accumulation.
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Update	2011/2