Dessus, SebastienNahas, Charbel2012-05-242012-05-242008-11https://hdl.handle.net/10986/6357With growing international skilled labor mobility, education and migration decisions have become increasingly inter-related, and potentially have a large impact on the growth trajectories of source countries, through their effects on labor supply, savings, or the cost of education. The authors develop a generic dynamic general equilibrium model to analyze the education-migration nexus in a consistent framework. They use the model as a laboratory to test empirical conditions for the existence of net brain gain, that is, greater domestic accumulation of human capital (in per capita terms) with greater migration of skilled workers. The results suggest that although some structural parameters can favor simultaneously greater human capital accumulation and greater skilled migration - such as high ratio of remittances over domestic incomes, high dependency ratios in migrant households, low dependency ratios in source countries, increasing returns to scale in the education sector, technological transfers and export market access with Diasporas, and efficient financial markets - this does not necessarily mean that greater migration encourages the constitution of greater stocks of human capital in source countries.CC BY 3.0 IGOACCOUNTINGAGE COMPOSITIONAGRICULTUREALLOCATIVE EFFICIENCYBASIC EDUCATIONBRAIN DRAINBUSINESS OPPORTUNITIESCAPITAL ACCUMULATIONCAPITAL FLOWSCAPITAL INVESTMENTCAPITAL RETURNSCAPITAL STOCKCITIZENSCOLLATERALSCOMPETITIVENESSCONSTANT RETURNS TO SCALECONSUMER PRICE INDEXCOUNTRY OF ORIGINDECISION MAKINGDEMOGRAPHICDEMOGRAPHIC PRESSURESDEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITIONDEMOGRAPHIC TRENDSDEPENDENCY RATIODEPENDENCY RATIOSDEVELOPING COUNTRIESDEVELOPING ECONOMYDEVELOPMENT ECONOMICSDEVELOPMENT POLICIESDISPOSABLE INCOMEDISPOSABLE INCOMESDOMESTIC CAPITALDOWNWARD PRESSUREECONOMIC CONSTRAINTSECONOMIC DECISIONSECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTECONOMIC GROWTHECONOMIC IMPLICATIONSECONOMIES OF SCALEEDUCATION SYSTEMSELASTICITYELASTICITY OF SUBSTITUTIONELDERLYENDOGENOUS VARIABLESEQUILIBRIUMEXCHANGE RATEEXCHANGE RATESEXOGENOUS VARIABLESEXPORT MARKETEXPORT MARKETSEXPORTSEXPOSUREFACTORS OF PRODUCTIONFAMILY POLICIESFERTILITYFERTILITY RATESFINANCIAL CONSTRAINTSFINANCIAL FLOWSFINANCIAL MARKETFINANCIAL MARKETSFINANCIAL SYSTEMSFLOW OF MIGRANTSFOREIGN COMPETITIONFOREIGN MARKETSGDPGDP PER CAPITAGENERAL EQUILIBRIUMGENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELSGLOBAL DEVELOPMENTGLOBAL ECONOMIC PROSPECTSGOVERNMENT EXPENDITURESGROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTGROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT PER CAPITAHEALTH EDUCATIONHUMAN CAPITALHUMAN DEVELOPMENTIMMIGRATIONIMMIGRATION POLICIESIMPACT OF MIGRATIONINCOMEINCREASING RETURNSINCREASING RETURNS TO SCALEINTERNATIONAL MIGRATIONINTERNATIONAL MOBILITYINVENTORYINVESTMENT DECISIONINVESTMENT DECISIONSINVESTMENT OPPORTUNITIESJOBSLABOR MOBILITYLABOR SUPPLYLEVELS OF CONSUMPTIONMARGINAL COSTSMARKET ACCESSMARKET EFFICIENCYMARKET PRICEMASCULINITYMIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIESMIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIESMIGRANTMIGRANT WORKERSMIGRANTSMIGRATIONMIGRATION FLOWSMORTALITYOPEN ECONOMYOUTPUTPER CAPITA INCOMESPOLICY DECISIONSPOLICY RESEARCHPOLICY RESEARCH WORKING PAPERPOLITICAL ECONOMYPOPULATION DECLINESPOPULATION GROWTHPOPULATION GROWTH RATEPOPULATION GROWTH RATESPOPULATION SIZEPOPULATION STATISTICSPOSITIVE EXTERNALITIESPREVIOUS DRAFTPREVIOUS SECTIONPRODUCTION COSTSPRODUCTION FUNCTIONPRODUCTIVITYPRODUCTIVITY GAINSPROGRESSPUBLIC SERVICESRATE OF GROWTHRATE OF POPULATION GROWTHREAL GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTREMITTANCEREMITTANCESRESPECTRETIREMENTSAVINGSSECONDARY EDUCATIONSEXSKILL PREMIUMSKILLED LABORSKILLED MIGRANTSSKILLED WORKERSSMALL COUNTRYTAXTECHNOLOGY TRANSFERTECHNOLOGY TRANSFERSTERTIARY EDUCATIONTRADE BALANCEUNEMPLOYMENTUNSKILLED LABORUNSKILLED WORKERSVALUE ADDEDWAGE BILLWAGESWORKERWORKFORCEWORLD DEVELOPMENT INDICATORSWORLD MARKETSWorld Bank10.1596/1813-9450-4775