Remittances and the brain drain. Evidence from microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa.

Autor/inn/en	Bredtmann, Julia; Martínez Flores, Fernanda; Otten, Sebastian
Institution	Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (London)
Titel	Remittances and the brain drain. Evidence from microdata for Sub-Saharan Africa. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Rücküberweisungen und Brain Drain. Erkenntnisse aus Mikrodaten für Afrika südlich der Sahara.
Quelle	London (2016), 43 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	CReAM discussion paper. 2016,27
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Qualifikation; Qualifikationsniveau; Brain Drain; Internationaler Vergleich; Überweisung; Hoch Qualifizierter; Burkina Faso; Herkunftsland; Kenia; Nigeria; Senegal; Südafrika (Staat); Uganda
Abstract	"Research on the relationship between high-skilled migration and remittances has been limited by the lack of suitable microdata. We create a unique cross-country dataset by combining household surveys from five Sub-Saharan African countries that enables us to analyze the effect of migrants' education on their remittance behavior. Having comprehensive information on both ends of the migrant-origin household relationship and employing household fixed effects specifications that only use within-household variation for identification allows us to address the problem of unobserved heterogeneity across migrants' origin households. Our results reveal that migrants' education has no significant impact on the likelihood of sending remittances. Conditional on sending remittances, however, high-skilled migrants send significantly higher amounts of money to their households left behind. This effect holds for the sub-groups of internal migrants and migrants in non-OECD countries, while it vanishes for migrants in OECD destination countries once characteristics of the origin household are controlled for." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2017/2