Is Migration a Good Substitute for Education Subsidies?

Assuming a given educational policy, the recent brain drain literature reveals that skilled migration can boost the average level of schooling in developing countries. This paper introduces educational subsidies determined by governments concerned...

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Main Authors:	Docquier, Frédéric, Faye, Ousmane, Pestieau, Pierre
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:	ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AGE STRUCTURE BENCHMARK BRAIN DRAIN BRAIN GAIN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CAPITAL FORMATION CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CAPITAL STOCK CIVIL WAR CONSEQUENCES OF MIGRATION CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE CORRUPTION CREDIT MARKET DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ECONOMIC COOPERATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ELASTICITY EMIGRATION EMIGRATION RATE EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EXPECTED RETURNS EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES EXTERNALITIES FERTILITY FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GDP PER CAPITA GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS GOVERNMENT BUDGET GROWTH RATE HOST COUNTRY HUMAN CAPITAL IMMIGRANTS IMMIGRATION IMMIGRATION POLICY IMPACT OF MIGRATION INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS INTEREST RATE INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION LABOR SUPPLY LEVEL OF EDUCATION LIQUIDITY LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS MIDDLE-INCOME MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES MIGRATION MIGRATION COSTS NUMBER OF ADULTS NUMBER OF EMIGRANTS OPEN ECONOMY PHYSICAL CAPITAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL TURMOIL POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION GROWTH RATES POPULATION SIZE POPULATION STRUCTURE PRODUCTION FUNCTION PROGRESS PUBLIC EDUCATION PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC SUBSIDIES PUBLIC SUBSIDY REMITTANCES RESPECT RETURN MIGRATION RISK NEUTRAL RULE OF LAW SECONDARY SCHOOLING SKILL LEVEL SKILLED MIGRANTS SKILLED MIGRATION SKILLED WORKERS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL COSTS SOCIAL OPTIMUM SOCIAL RETURNS SOCIAL WELFARE SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TAX TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TERTIARY EDUCATION TERTIARY LEVELS TOTALITARIAN REGIMES TURNOVER UNITED NATIONS POPULATION DIVISION UNSKILLED MIGRATION URBANIZATION WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/05/9416573/migration-good-substitute-education-subsidies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6716

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spelling	okr-10986-67162021-04-23T14:02:31Z Is Migration a Good Substitute for Education Subsidies? Docquier, Frédéric Faye, Ousmane Pestieau, Pierre ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AGE STRUCTURE BENCHMARK BRAIN DRAIN BRAIN GAIN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CAPITAL FORMATION CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CAPITAL STOCK CIVIL WAR CONSEQUENCES OF MIGRATION CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE CORRUPTION CREDIT MARKET DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ECONOMIC COOPERATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ELASTICITY EMIGRATION EMIGRATION RATE EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EXPECTED RETURNS EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES EXTERNALITIES FERTILITY FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GDP PER CAPITA GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS GOVERNMENT BUDGET GROWTH RATE HOST COUNTRY HUMAN CAPITAL IMMIGRANTS IMMIGRATION IMMIGRATION POLICY IMPACT OF MIGRATION INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS INTEREST RATE INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION LABOR SUPPLY LEVEL OF EDUCATION LIQUIDITY LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS MIDDLE-INCOME MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES MIGRATION MIGRATION COSTS NUMBER OF ADULTS NUMBER OF EMIGRANTS OPEN ECONOMY PHYSICAL CAPITAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL TURMOIL POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION GROWTH RATES POPULATION SIZE POPULATION STRUCTURE PRODUCTION FUNCTION PROGRESS PUBLIC EDUCATION PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC SUBSIDIES PUBLIC SUBSIDY REMITTANCES RESPECT RETURN MIGRATION RISK NEUTRAL RULE OF LAW SECONDARY SCHOOLING SKILL LEVEL SKILLED MIGRANTS SKILLED MIGRATION SKILLED WORKERS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL COSTS SOCIAL OPTIMUM SOCIAL RETURNS SOCIAL WELFARE SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TAX TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TERTIARY EDUCATION TERTIARY LEVELS TOTALITARIAN REGIMES TURNOVER UNITED NATIONS POPULATION DIVISION UNSKILLED MIGRATION URBANIZATION WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS Assuming a given educational policy, the recent brain drain literature reveals that skilled migration can boost the average level of schooling in developing countries. This paper introduces educational subsidies determined by governments concerned by the number of skilled workers remaining in the country. The theoretical analysis shows that developing countries can benefit from skilled emigration when educational subsidies entail high .fiscal distortions. However when taxes are not too distortionary, it is desirable to impede emigration and subsidize education. The authors investigate the empirical relationship between educational subsidies and migration prospects, obtaining a negative relationship for 105 countries. Based on this result, the analysis revisits the country specific effects of skilled migration upon human capital. The findings show that the endogeneity of public subsidies reduces the number of winners and increases the magnitude of the losses. 2012-05-30T21:33:55Z 2012-05-30T21:33:55Z 2008-05 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/05/9416573/migration-good-substitute-education-subsidies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6716 English Policy Research Working Paper No. 4614 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AGE STRUCTURE BENCHMARK BRAIN DRAIN BRAIN GAIN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CAPITAL FORMATION CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CAPITAL STOCK CIVIL WAR CONSEQUENCES OF MIGRATION CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE CORRUPTION CREDIT MARKET DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ECONOMIC COOPERATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ELASTICITY EMIGRATION EMIGRATION RATE EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EXPECTED RETURNS EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES EXTERNALITIES FERTILITY FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GDP PER CAPITA GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS GOVERNMENT BUDGET GROWTH RATE HOST COUNTRY HUMAN CAPITAL IMMIGRANTS IMMIGRATION IMMIGRATION POLICY IMPACT OF MIGRATION INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS INTEREST RATE INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION LABOR SUPPLY LEVEL OF EDUCATION LIQUIDITY LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS MIDDLE-INCOME MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES MIGRATION MIGRATION COSTS NUMBER OF ADULTS NUMBER OF EMIGRANTS OPEN ECONOMY PHYSICAL CAPITAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL TURMOIL POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION GROWTH RATES POPULATION SIZE POPULATION STRUCTURE PRODUCTION FUNCTION PROGRESS PUBLIC EDUCATION PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC SUBSIDIES PUBLIC SUBSIDY REMITTANCES RESPECT RETURN MIGRATION RISK NEUTRAL RULE OF LAW SECONDARY SCHOOLING SKILL LEVEL SKILLED MIGRANTS SKILLED MIGRATION SKILLED WORKERS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL COSTS SOCIAL OPTIMUM SOCIAL RETURNS SOCIAL WELFARE SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TAX TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TERTIARY EDUCATION TERTIARY LEVELS TOTALITARIAN REGIMES TURNOVER UNITED NATIONS POPULATION DIVISION UNSKILLED MIGRATION URBANIZATION WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS
spellingShingle	ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS AGE STRUCTURE BENCHMARK BRAIN DRAIN BRAIN GAIN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION CAPITAL FORMATION CAPITAL INVESTMENTS CAPITAL STOCK CIVIL WAR CONSEQUENCES OF MIGRATION CONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALE CORRUPTION CREDIT MARKET DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS ECONOMIC COOPERATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH EDUCATION LEVEL EDUCATION LEVELS EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT ELASTICITY EMIGRATION EMIGRATION RATE EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS EXPECTED RETURNS EXPENDITURE EXPENDITURES EXTERNALITIES FERTILITY FUNCTIONAL FORMS GDP GDP PER CAPITA GOOD GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE INDICATORS GOVERNMENT BUDGET GROWTH RATE HOST COUNTRY HUMAN CAPITAL IMMIGRANTS IMMIGRATION IMMIGRATION POLICY IMPACT OF MIGRATION INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS INTEREST RATE INTERNATIONAL BANK INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION INVESTMENT IN EDUCATION LABOR SUPPLY LEVEL OF EDUCATION LIQUIDITY LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS MIDDLE-INCOME MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES MIGRATION MIGRATION COSTS NUMBER OF ADULTS NUMBER OF EMIGRANTS OPEN ECONOMY PHYSICAL CAPITAL POLICY IMPLICATIONS POLICY RESEARCH POLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPER POLITICAL TURMOIL POPULATION DENSITY POPULATION GROWTH POPULATION GROWTH RATES POPULATION SIZE POPULATION STRUCTURE PRODUCTION FUNCTION PROGRESS PUBLIC EDUCATION PUBLIC GOOD PUBLIC SUBSIDIES PUBLIC SUBSIDY REMITTANCES RESPECT RETURN MIGRATION RISK NEUTRAL RULE OF LAW SECONDARY SCHOOLING SKILL LEVEL SKILLED MIGRANTS SKILLED MIGRATION SKILLED WORKERS SOCIAL CAPITAL SOCIAL COSTS SOCIAL OPTIMUM SOCIAL RETURNS SOCIAL WELFARE SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA TAX TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TERTIARY EDUCATION TERTIARY LEVELS TOTALITARIAN REGIMES TURNOVER UNITED NATIONS POPULATION DIVISION UNSKILLED MIGRATION URBANIZATION WORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORS Docquier, Frédéric Faye, Ousmane Pestieau, Pierre Is Migration a Good Substitute for Education Subsidies?
relation	Policy Research Working Paper No. 4614
description	Assuming a given educational policy, the recent brain drain literature reveals that skilled migration can boost the average level of schooling in developing countries. This paper introduces educational subsidies determined by governments concerned by the number of skilled workers remaining in the country. The theoretical analysis shows that developing countries can benefit from skilled emigration when educational subsidies entail high .fiscal distortions. However when taxes are not too distortionary, it is desirable to impede emigration and subsidize education. The authors investigate the empirical relationship between educational subsidies and migration prospects, obtaining a negative relationship for 105 countries. Based on this result, the analysis revisits the country specific effects of skilled migration upon human capital. The findings show that the endogeneity of public subsidies reduces the number of winners and increases the magnitude of the losses.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Docquier, Frédéric Faye, Ousmane Pestieau, Pierre
author_facet	Docquier, Frédéric Faye, Ousmane Pestieau, Pierre
author_sort	Docquier, Frédéric
title	Is Migration a Good Substitute for Education Subsidies?
title_short	Is Migration a Good Substitute for Education Subsidies?
title_full	Is Migration a Good Substitute for Education Subsidies?
title_fullStr	Is Migration a Good Substitute for Education Subsidies?
title_full_unstemmed	Is Migration a Good Substitute for Education Subsidies?
title_sort	is migration a good substitute for education subsidies?
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2012
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/05/9416573/migration-good-substitute-education-subsidies http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6716
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