Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/34903 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3393
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
It has been argued that the brain drain's negative impact may be offset by the higher remittance levels skilled migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants of remittances it considers include migration levels or rates, migrants' education level, and source countries' income, financial sector development and expected growth rate. The estimation takes potential endogeneity into account, an issue not considered in the few studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with tertiary education. This provides an additional reason for which source countries would prefer unskilled to skilled labor migration. Moreover, as predicted by our model, remittances increase with source countries' level and rate of migration, financial sector development and population, and decrease with these countries' income and expected growth rate.
Subjects: 
Migration
remittances
education level
brain drain
JEL: 
F22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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