Documenting the brain drain of Ç la creme de la creme È: Three case-studies on international migration at the upper tail of the education distribution

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Documenting the brain drain of Ç la creme de la creme È: Three case-studies on international migration at the upper tail of the education distribution

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Frederic DOCQUIER (UNIVERSITE CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES), IZA and CReAM)
Hillel RAPOPORT (Department of Economics, Bar-Ilan University, EQUIPPE, UniversitŽ de Lille II, CReAM and CEPREMAP)

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Frédéric Docquier

Abstract

Most of the recent literature on the effects of the brain drain on source countries consists of theoretical papers and cross-country empirical studies. In this paper we complement the literature through three case studies on very different regional and professional contexts: the African medical brain drain, the exodus of European researchers to the United States, and the contribution of the Indian diaspora to the rise of the IT sector in India. While the three case studies concern the very upper tail of the skill and education distribution, their effects of source countries are contrasted: clearly negative in the case of the exodus of European researchers, clearly positive in the case of the Indian diasporaÕs contribution to putting India on the IT global map, and mixed in the case of the medical brain drain out of Africa.

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Paper provided by Université catholique de Louvain, Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales (IRES) in its series Discussion Papers (IRES - Institut de Recherches Economiques et Sociales) with number 2009031.

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F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
O15 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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NEP-ALL-2009-10-31 (All new papers)
NEP-MIG-2009-10-31 (Economics of Human Migration)

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