Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20054 
Year of Publication: 
2003
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 809
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The migration of skilled individuals from developing countries has typically been considered to be costly for the sending country, due to lost investments in education, high fiscal costs and labour market distortions. Economic theory, however, raises the possibility of a beneficial brain drain primarily through improved incentives to acquire human capital. Our survey of empirical and theoretical work shows under what circumstances a developing country can benefit from skilled migration. It argues that the sectoral aspects of migration and screening of migrants in the receiving country are of major importance in determining the welfare implications of the brain drain. These issues, as well as the size of the sending country, duration of migration and the effect of diaspora populations, should be addressed in future empirical work on skilled migration.
Subjects: 
brain drain
migration
globalization
JEL: 
O1
F2
J6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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