Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/110079 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 8881
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We analyze trends in nursing education in the Philippines during a period of rising and falling demand for Philippine nurses in the developed countries. Based on focus group discussion data obtained in the Philippines, we examine students' motivations to become nurses and to what extent their choices were affected by the possibility of international migration. The number of nursing graduates rose, resulting in brain gain. However, policies promoting the migration of skilled workers such as nurses impose high costs on middle class and lower class families who invest in education hoping that a family member will be able to migrate.
Subjects: 
brain drain
brain gain
international nurse migration
Philippines
JEL: 
F66
I11
J24
J44
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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