Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited : The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More

doi:10.1093/wber/lhr013

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Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited : The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More

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dc.contributor.author	Bollard, Albert
dc.contributor.author	McKenzie, David
dc.contributor.author	Morten, Melanie
dc.contributor.author	Rapoport, Hillel
dc.date.accessioned	2013-05-20T21:00:13Z
dc.date.available	2013-05-20T21:00:13Z
dc.date.issued	2011-01-30
dc.description.abstract	Two of the most salient trends in migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances and in the flow of skilled migrants. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration will impede remittance growth. Microdata from surveys of immigrants in 11 major destination countries are used to revisit the relationship between education and remitting behavior. The data show a mixed pattern between education and the likelihood of remitting, and a strong positive relationship between education and amount remitted (intensive margin), conditional on remitting at all (extensive margin). Combining these intensive and extensive margins yields an overall positive effect of education on the amount remitted for the pooled sample, with heterogeneous results across destinations. The microdata allow investigation of why the more educated remit more, showing that the higher income earned by migrants, rather than family characteristics, explains much of the higher remittances.	en
dc.identifier.citation	World Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier.doi	10.1596/13468
dc.identifier.issn	1564-698X
dc.identifier.other	doi:10.1093/wber/lhr013
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10986/13469
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	World Bank
dc.relation.ispartofseries	World Bank Economic Review
dc.rights	CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.subject	Brain Drain
dc.subject	country of origin
dc.subject	developing countries
dc.subject	Educated Migrants
dc.subject	family composition
dc.subject	family members
dc.subject	illegal migrants
dc.subject	immigrant
dc.subject	immigrants
dc.subject	immigration
dc.subject	immigration policies
dc.subject	impact of education
dc.subject	migrant
dc.subject	migration
dc.subject	primary education
dc.subject	remittance
dc.subject	Remittances
dc.subject	skill level
dc.subject	skilled migrants
dc.subject	tertiary education
dc.title	Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited : The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More	en
dc.type	Journal Article	en
dc.type	Article de journal	fr
dc.type	Artículo de revista	es
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okr.crosscuttingsolutionarea	Jobs
okr.date.disclosure	2012-07-30
okr.date.doiregistration	2025-05-06T11:30:53.900042Z
okr.doctype	Journal Article
okr.globalpractice	Macroeconomics and Fiscal Management
okr.globalpractice	Finance and Markets
okr.globalpractice	Health, Nutrition, and Population
okr.identifier.doi	10.1093/wber/lhr013
okr.journal.nbpages	132-156
okr.language.supported	en
okr.peerreview	Academic Peer Review
okr.topic	Health, Nutrition and Population::Population Policies
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth::Remittances
okr.volume	25(1)
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