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International migration, remittances, and the brain drain

Schiff, Maurice W., Özden, Çaḡlar

2006,2005

Overview

\"International migration, the movement of people across international boundaries, has enormous economic, social, and cultural implications in both origin and destination countries. It is estimated that some one hundred and eighty million people (three per cent of the world's population) are living in countries in which they were not born. Among these are millions of highly-educated people who moved to developed countries from developing countries that already suffer from low levels of human capital and skilled workers. Moreover, the flow of formal remittances from migrants to their relatives in their countries of birth has exhibited a very rapid and accelerating rate of growth. Estimated to exceed one hundred billion dollars annually, remittances surpass foreign aid and account for the largest source of foreign capital for dozens of countries. This timely volume provides an in-depth examination of the relationship between - and the impacts on - migration, remittances, and development. Using new household surveys and census data, the determinants of migration and the impact of migration and remittances on various measures of welfare are analyzed. Others issues discussed include the migration of skilled workers, the impact of international students and skilled migration in the United States, the determinants of internal and international migration from rural areas whilst providing a critical examination of the new 'brain drain' literature.\" Die Untersuchung enthält quantitative Daten. Forschungsmethode: empirisch-quantitativ; empirisch. Die Untersuchung bezieht sich auf den Zeitraum 1990 bis 2000. (author's abstract, IAB-Doku).

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC: World Bank and Palgrave Macmillan,World Bank [u.a.]
• Subject: Armut / ASYLUM SEEKERS / Auswanderung / Bildungsniveau / BRAIN DRAIN / BRAIN GAIN / BRAIN WASTE / CAPITAL FLOWS / CHILD LABOR / COST OF MIGRATION / COUNTRIES OF ORIGIN / DEMOGRAPHIC TRENDS / DETERMINANTS OF MIGRATION / DOMESTIC LABOR / DOMESTIC LABOR MARKET / ECONOMIC INTEGRATION / EDUCATED PEOPLE / EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT / EFFECTS OF MIGRATION / Einwanderung / Emigrant remittances / EMIGRATION / Emigration and immigration / EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS / EMPLOYMENT / ENTREPRENEURSHIP / Entwicklungsland / EUROPEAN MIGRATION / EXTERNALITIES / Familie / FOREIGN STUDENTS / HEALTH OUTCOMES / HIGHLY SKILLED WORKERS / Hoch Qualifizierter / HOUSING / HUMAN CAPITAL / IMMIGRANTS / IMMIGRATION / IMMIGRATION COUNTRIES / IMMIGRATION POLICIES / IMPACT OF MIGRATION / INCOME DISTRIBUTION / INSURANCE / INTERNAL MIGRATION / INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION / INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION FLOWS / INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY / INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR MIGRATION / INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS / Internationale Migration / LABOR FORCE / LABOR MARKETS / LEGAL PROTECTION / MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS / MIGRANT / MIGRANT CHARACTERISTICS / MIGRANT HOUSEHOLDS / Migrant remittances / MIGRANTS / MIGRATION / MIGRATION COSTS / MIGRATION DECISIONS / MIGRATION FLOWS / MIGRATION PATTERNS / MIGRATION POLICY / MIGRATION RATES / MIGRATION RESEARCH / Migration, Internal / Motivation / MUNICIPALITIES / NATIVE POPULATION / NORTH MIGRATION / NUMBER OF MIGRANTS / POLICIES / Poverty / PRESENT VALUE / PRODUCTIVITY / PUBLIC POLICY / PUBLIC SERVICES / REFUGEES / Remittances / RESEARCH ON MIGRATION / RESEARCH PROGRAM / Rücküberweisungen / SKILLED MIGRANTS / SKILLED MIGRATION / SKILLED PEOPLE / SKILLED WORKERS / SOCIAL ISSUES / SOCIAL NETWORKS / Social research / SUBSIDIARY / TEMPORARY MIGRATION / TRADE / UNSKILLED LABOR / Vereinigte Staaten / WAGES / WASTE / Welt / WORKERS
• ISBN: 9780821363720, 0821363727, 0821363735, 9780821363737