HIV Pandemic, Medical Brain Drain, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (2008)
Bhargava, Alok, Docquier, Frédéric
Country-level longitudinal data at three-year intervals over 1990–2004 are used to analyze the factors affecting emigration of physicians from Sub-Saharan countries and the effects of this medical...
Brain Drain in Developing Countries (2007)
Docquier, Frédéric, Lohest, Olivier, Marfouk, Abdeslam
An original data set on international migration by educational attainment for 1990 and 2000 is used to analyze the determinants of brain drain from developing countries. The analysis starts with a...
Measuring International Skilled Migration: A New Database Controlling for Age of Entry (2007)
Beine, Michel, Docquier, Frédéric, Rapoport, Hillel
Recent data on international migration of skilled workers define skilled migrants by education level without distinguishing whether they acquired their education in the home or the host country. This...
Skilled Migration: The Perspective of Developing Countries
Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport
This chapter focuses on the effects of skilled migration on developing countries. We first present new evidence on the magnitude of the -brain drain- at the international level. Using a stylized...
Income Growth in the 21st century : forecasts with an overlapping generations model
David, DE LA CROIX, Frédéric DOCQUIER, Philippe, LIEGEOIS
We forecast income growth over the periode 2000-2050 in the US, Canada, and France. To ground the forecasts on relationships that are as robust as possible t changes in the environment, we use a...
Policy Reforms and Growth in Computable OLG Economies
Bouzahzah, Mohamed, De La Croix, David, Docquier, Frédéric
We build a computable general equilibrium model with overlapping generations of agents and an endogenous growth specification à la Lucas. Two main issues are addressed: (i) to what extent does...
David, De La Croix, Frédéric Docquier
We evaluate the effect of technology, demographics and policy on the differential evolution of the skill premium and on the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable...
Brain Drain and Remittances: Implications for the Source Country
Dilek Cinar, Frédéric Docquier
In this paper, we model a developing economy in which individual decisions about education and migration are constrained by capital market imperfections (liquidity constraints). We examine the joint...
Remittances and Inequality: A Dynamic Migration Model
Docquier, Frédéric, Rapoport, Hillel
We develop a model of the interdependencies between migration, remittances and inequality, and investigate how migration and subsequent remittances affect inter-household inequality in the origin...
Brain Drain in Developing Regions (1990-2000)
Frédéric Docquier, Olivier Lohest, Abdeslam Marfouk
In this paper, we analyze the distribution of the brain drain in the LAC region (Latin America and the Caribbean), Asia and Africa. We rely on an original data set on international migration by...
Should the U.S. Have Locked the Heaven’s Door? Reassessing the Benefits of the Postwar Immigration
Xavier Chojnicki, Frédéric Docquier, Lionel Ragot
This paper examines the economic impact of the second great immigration wave (1945- 2000) on the US economy. Contrary to recent studies, we estimate that immigration induced important net gains and...
Immigration and Aging in the Belgian Regions
Marc Debuisson, Frédéric Docquier, Abdul Noury, Madeleine Nantcho
In this note, we first depict the structure of the foreign population (When did they come? From where? What about their skills?) and discuss its assimilation on the domestic labor market. Then we...
Measuring Skilled Emigration Rates: The Case of Small States
Docquier, Frédéric, Schiff, Maurice
Recent changes in information and communication technologies (ICT) have contributed to a dramatic increase in the integration and interdependence of countries, markets and people. This paper focuses...
Brain Drain and its Determinants: A Major Issue for Small States
Beine, Michel, Docquier, Frédéric, Schiff, Maurice
This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states’ overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers...
School Attendance and Skill Premiums in France and the US: A General Equilibrium Approach*
We evaluate the effect of education policies, welfare programmes, technology and demographics on the differential evolution of the skill premium and on the rise in education investment in France and...
A Gendered Assessment of the Brain Drain
Frédéric Docquier, B. Lindsay Lowell, Abdeslam Marfouk
This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on international migration by educational attainment. We use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute...
Income Distribution, Non-convexities and the Fertility-Income Relationship
This paper presents a model of inequality, income determination and fertility, that is consistent with aggregated stylized facts and individual survey data on fertility and income. It shows that...
Brain Drain and LDCs’ Growth: Winners and Losers
Beine, Michel, Docquier, Frédéric, Rapoport, Hillel
We present an empirical evaluation of the growth effects of the brain drain for the source countries of migrants. Using recent US data on migration rates by education levels (Carrington and...
Diverging Patterns of Education Premium and School Attendance in France and the US: A Walrasian View
De La Croix, David, Docquier, Frédéric
We evaluate the effect of technology, demographics and policy on the differential evolution of the skill premium and on the rise in education investment in France and the USA. We use a computable...
Population Prospects and the Determination of a Debt-Sharing Rule between Seceding Regions
Cattoir, Philippe, Docquier, Frédéric
This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising from a secession or a country partitioning namely the sharing of the national public debt. Extending Drèze's distributive...
Chojnicki, Xavier, Docquier, Frédéric
In this paper, we investigate the consequences of the rise in educational attainment on the US generational accounts. We build on the 1995 accounts of Gokhale et al. (1999) and disaggregate them per...
The Economics of Migrants’ Remittances
Rapoport, Hillel, Docquier, Frédéric
This chapter reviews the recent theoretical and empirical economic literature on migrants' remittances. It is divided between a microeconomic section on the determinants of remittances and a...
Optimal Accumulation in an Endogenous Growth Setting with Human Capital
Frédéric Docquier, Oliver Paddison, Pierre Pestieau
This paper considers a three-overlapping-generations model of endogenous growth wherein human capital is the engine of growth. It first contrasts the laissez-faire and the optimal solutions. Three...
Brain Drain and Inequality Across Nations
Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants...
Debt-sharing and Secession: A Generational Accounting Approach
Philippe Cattoir, Frédéric Docquier
Cattoir P. and Docquier F. (2004) Debt-sharing and secession: a generational accounting approach, Reg. Studies 38 , 293-303. This paper investigates one of the most important financial issues arising...
Skilled Migration and Business Networks
Frédéric Docquier, Elisabetta Lodigiani
The role of migrants’ networks in promoting cross border investments has been stressed in the literature, possibly making migration and FDI complements rather than substitutes in the long run. In...
Measuring International Skilled Migration: A New Database Controlling for Age of Entry
Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, Hillel Rapoport
Recent data on international migration of skilled workers define skilled migrants by education level without distinguishing whether they acquired their education in the home or the host country. This...
International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility
Beine, Michel, Docquier, Frédéric, Schiff, Maurice
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes,...
International Migration, Transfers of Norms and Home Country Fertility
Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, Maurice Schiff
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes,...
Fuite des cerveaux et inégalités entre pays
Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed countries, its determinants...
Michel Beine, Frédéric Docquier, Caglar Özden
Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, we analyze how existing diasporas (the stock of people born in a country and living...
Mathias Dewatripont, Frédéric Docquier, Françoise Thys-Clément, Henri Capron, Michel Mignolet, Michel Allé, ...
Brain Drain in Globalization: A General Equilibrium Analysis from the Sending Countries' Perspective
Marchiori, Luca, Shen, I-Ling, Docquier, Frédéric
The paper assesses the global effects of brain drain on developing economies and quantifies the relative sizes of various static and dynamic impacts. By constructing a unified generic framework...
On the Robustness of Brain Gain Estimates
Beine, Michel, Docquier, Frédéric, Rapoport, Hillel
Recent theoretical studies suggest that migration prospects can raise the expected return to human capital and thus foster education investment at home or, in other words, induce a brain gain. In a...
A Gendered Assessment of Highly Skilled Emigration
Frédéric Docquier, B. Lindsay Lowell, Abdeslam Marfouk
Although women form a large and increasing proportion of international migrants, women's mobility has generally been overlooked in the literature. Quantifying and characterizing female migration...
HIV Pandemic, Medical Brain Drain, and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Alok Bhargava, Frédéric Docquier
Country-level longitudinal data at three-year intervals over 1990--2004 are used to analyze the factors affecting emigration of physicians from Sub-Saharan countries and the effects of this medical...