Extending the case for a beneficial brain drain.

Autor/inn/en	Bertoli, Simone; Brücker, Herbert
Institution	NORFACE Research Programme on Migration
Titel	Extending the case for a beneficial brain drain. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Erweiterung eines nützlichen Brain Drains.
Quelle	London (2012), 12 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Norface migration discussion paper. 2012-08
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Bildungsertrag; Einwanderungsland; Migration; Investition; Qualifikationsniveau; Brain Drain; Auswahlverfahren; Migrant; Herkunftsland
Abstract	The recent literature about the so-called beneficial brain drain assumes that destination countries are characterized not only by higher wages than the source country, but also by a higher or at least not lower relative return to education. However, it is a well known stylized fact that the returns to education are higher in rich than in poor countries. Against this background, we assess whether the main prediction of this literature, namely the possibility of a beneficial brain gain, still holds under the reverse assumption. We show that there is a still a strong case for a beneficial brain drain, even if the returns to education in the source country exceed those in the destination country. Immigration policies that are biased against unskilled workers are not necessary for a beneficial brain drain to occur once one considers that agents face heterogeneous migration costs. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2013/4