TY  - GEN
AB  - We develop a theoretical model of human skill formation and emigration.
We extend the existing brain drain models, by partly endogenizing the heterogeneity
of individuals, by introducing aspirations. Emigration of an individual
will result in a migration experience, which increases the migrant's aspirations.
This will induce her to invest more in the education of her children back home.
We find that this aspirations effect increases the average skill level in the society
for a given migration rate. We show that the optimal migration rate
that maximizes the post-migration skill-rate of the population is higher if we
allow for the aspirations effect of migration. We use panel data from Indonesia
to demonstrate that a migration experience has an aspirations increasing
effect and calibrate our model accordingly. Our results suggest that there are
potentially more countries than previously thought which could benefit from
migration.
DA  - 2014
DO  - 10.4119/unibi/2915530
KW  - migration
KW  - brain gain
KW  - aspirations
KW  - education
LA  - eng
PY  - 2014
SN  - 2196-2723
SP  - 30-
TI  - Migration Experience, Aspirations and the Brain Drain: Theory and Empirical Evidence
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29155302
Y2  - 2024-11-22T06:55:35
ER  -