Remittances and the brain drain: skilled migrants do remit less

Arbeitspapier

It has been argued that the brain drain's negative impact may be offset by the higher remittance levels skilled migrants send home. This paper examines whether remittances actually increase with migrants' education level. The determinants of remittances it considers include migration levels or 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 studies on this topic. Our main finding is that remittances decrease with the share of migrants with tertiary education. This provides an additional reason for which source countries would 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 with these countries' income and expected growth rate.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 3393

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; International Migration
• Thema: Migration ; remittances ; education level ; brain drain ; Rücküberweisung (Migranten) ; Migranten ; Bildungsniveau ; Brain Drain ; Migrationstheorie ; Entwicklungsstufe ; Welt ; Entwicklungsländer

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Niimi, Yoko ; Özden, Çağlar ; Schiff, Maurice
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2008

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/34903
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ