Is the brain drain an unmitigated blessing?

Autor/in	Faini, Riccardo
Institution	World Institute for Development Economics Research
Titel	Is the brain drain an unmitigated blessing? Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Ist Brain Drain ein uneingeschränkter Segen?
Quelle	Helsinki (2003), 15 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Discussion paper / World Institute for Development Economics Research. 2003/64
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1609-5774
ISBN	92-9190-514-3; 92-9190-515-1
Schlagwörter	Bildung; Entwicklungsland; Inländer; Humankapital; Geld; Investition; Wirtschaftswachstum; Qualifikationsstruktur; Brain Drain; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Überweisung; Hoch Qualifizierter; Herkunftsland
Abstract	"Increasingly, immigration policies tend to favour the entry of skilled workers, raising substantial concerns among sending countries. The 'revisionist' approach to the analysis of the brain drain holds that such concerns are largely unwarranted. First, sustained migratory flows may be associated with an equally large flow of remittances. Second, migrants may return home after having acquired a set of productive skills. Finally, the ability to migrate abroad may boost the incentive to acquire skills by home residents. This paper takes a further look at the link between skilled migration, education, and remittances. It finds little support for the revisionist approach. First, a higher skilled content of migration is found to be associated with a lower flow of remittances. Second, there is little evidence suggesting that raising the skill composition of migration has a positive effect on the educational achievements in the home country." Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch; Sekundäranalyse. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2006/4