Education in the East, Emigrating to the West?

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This paper examines the potential impacts of East-West migration of talents on the innovative capital and hence the long-run growth prospects in Eastern sending countries. Complementing previous studies, we examine the impact of high skill migration not only on the formation of human capital, but also consider migration's impact on knowledge capital in the sending countries. In line with previous studies we find that in the short- to medium-term high skill migration strictly reduces national innovative capital and hence increases the gap between East and West. However, these effects might be mitigated by factors such as reinforced education of workers, productive investment of remittances, return migration and increased knowledge transfer. Given that the emigration of highly skilled affects human capital differently than knowledge capital, addressing the adverse impacts of the most talented and highly skilled worker emigration efficiently, differentiated policies are required for human capital and knowledge capital.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: EERI Research Paper Series ; No. 01/2010

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium: General ; Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty: General ; International Migration ; Remittances ; National Government Expenditures and Education ; Analysis of Education ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers ; Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
• Subject: International labour migration ; skilled workers ; growth ; human capital

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Kancs, d'Artis ; Kielyte, Julda
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI)
• (where): Brussels
• (when): 2010

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/142564
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