Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55051 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5953
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper explores the impact of financial liberalization on the migration of high skilled labor from 46 countries to the OECD, taken at five year intervals over the period 1985-2000. Using an exploratory factor analysis, we are able to distinguish between two dimensions of financial liberalization, namely the robustness of the markets and their freedom from direct government control. We find that a standard deviation improvement in the robustness of the source country financial sector magnifies the extent of brain drain by a factor of about four percentage points on the average. However, a corresponding increase in the freedom of the source country financial sector from government control has a modest negative impact on the emigration of high skilled labor and the effect is not statistically significant. Further, the impact of improved financial sector robustness on selection is more pronounced for non-OECD economies than for OECD nations, which experience virtually no impact on skilled emigration.
Subjects: 
financial liberalization
brain drain
institutions
immigration
JEL: 
F22
O15
P48
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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