Remittances and the Brain Drain: Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less!
Niimi, Yoko; Ozden, Caglar; Schiff, Maurice | October 2008
Abstract
It has been argued that the adverse impact of skilled versus unskilled labor
migration can be mitigated or even offset by the fact that skilled migrants remit
more than unskilled ones. This paper contributes to the much debated and so far
unresolved related issue of whether remittances actually increase with migrants’
level of education. The determinants of remittances considered include migration
levels and 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 existing
studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease for migrants
with tertiary education. This provides an additional reason for source countries to
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 in per capita income and
expected growth rate.
Citation
Niimi, Yoko; Ozden, Caglar; Schiff, Maurice. 2008. Remittances and the Brain Drain: Skilled Migrants Do Remit Less!. © Asian Development Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/1787. License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.ISSN
1655-5252
Keywords
Alleviating Poverty
Anti-Poverty
Extreme Poverty
Fight Against Poverty
Global Poverty
Health Aspects Of Poverty
Indicators Of Poverty
Participatory Poverty Assessment
Poverty Eradication
Poverty Analysis
Poverty In Developing Countries
Poverty Reduction Efforts
Urban Poverty
Urbanization
Urban Services
Urban Projects
Urban Problems
Urban Poverty
Urban Policy
Urban Planning
Urban Infrastructure
Urban Health
Urban Government
Urban Economic Development
Urban Development Finance
Urban Development
Urban Conditions
Urban Communities
Urban Population
Development Indicators
Environmental Indicators
Economic Indicators
Educational Indicators
Demographic Indicators
Health Indicators
Disadvantaged Groups
Low Income Groups
Socially Disadvantaged Children
Rural Conditions
Rural Development
Social Conditions
Urban Development
Urban Sociology
Urban Plans
Urbanism
Urban agriculture
Economic Development
Rural Urban Migration
Cities
Poor
Economic forecasting
Health expectancy
Social groups
Political participation
Distribution of income
Inequality of income
Developing countries
Rural community development
Mass society
Social change
Social policy
Social stability
Population
Sustainable development
Peasantry
Urban policy
Urban renewal
Local government
Urban renewal
Urban housing
Urban sociology
Transit systems
Rapid transit
Public transit
Mass transit
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