Innovation and International High Skilled Migration

Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration: International Evidence

Wage Effects of High-Skilled Migration: International Evidence This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level such that the wage rate of skilled workers may rise in host countries and decline in source countries. We exploit a recent data set on international bilateral migration flows and provide evidence which is consisten...

International migration of the highly skilled: economics, ethics and taxes.

International Migration of Skilled and Unskilled Labour, Welfare and Skilled-unskilled Wage Inequality: a Simple Model

The paper shows that in a reasonable production structure for a developing economy a brain drain of skilled labour may raise the welfare of the economy while an emigration of unskilled labour is welfare reducing. Also an emigration of skilled/unskilled labour lowers the urban unemployment of unskilled labour and widens the skilled-unskilled wage-gap. The paper provides an alternative explanatio...

High Skilled Immigration in the International Arena

High Skilled Immigration in the International Arena This conceptual paper, prepared for a United Nations Expert Group Meeting on Migration and Development, is concerned with the international mobility of high-skilled workers, previously referred to as the “brain drain”. After discussing the historical background of high-skilled international migration, the paper examines the reasons for the rec...

International Skilled Migration: The Caribbean Experience in Perspective

While migration is not a new phenomenon, the sustained increase in the remittance flows associated with it has contributed to raise awareness on its dimension. Caribbean countries show a very distinctive pattern of migration with high skilled migration rates unmatched by low-skilled migration. This paper proposes an analysis of the characteristics of Caribbean skilled migration, in the context ...