Documents et rapports
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Labor Market Effects of Demographic Shifts and Migration in OECD Countries (anglais)
The labor force of each industrial country is being shaped by three forces: ageing, education and migration. Drawing on a new database for the OECD countries and a standard analytical framework, this paper...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS8676 Date du document: 17 décembre 2018 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Docquier,Frederic,Kone,Zovanga Louis,Mattoo,Aaditya,Ozden,Caglar
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A global assessment of human capital mobility: the role of non-OECD destinations (anglais)
Discussions of high-skilled mobility typically evoke migration patterns from poorer to wealthier countries, which ignore movements to and between developing countries. This paper presents, for the first...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6863 Date du document: 1 mai 2014 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Artuc,Erhan,Docquier,Frederic,Ozden,Caglar,Parsons,Christopher Robert
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Modeling the effects of physician emigration on human development (anglais)
This paper quantifies the effects of physician emigration on human development indicators in developing countries. First, the geographical distribution and evolution of physician brain drain is documented...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 78738 Date du document: 22 juin 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bhargava,Alok,Docquier,Frederic,Moullan,Yasser
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Diaspora effects in international migration : key questions and methodological issues (anglais)
This paper reviews the existing literature on the impact of migrants networks on the patterns of international migration. It covers the theoretical channels at stake in the global effect of the networks...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5721 Date du document: 1 juin 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beine,Michel,Docquier,Frederic,Ozden,Caglar
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The wage effects of immigration and emigration (anglais)
Immigrants in Rome or Paris are more visible to the public eye than the Italian or French engineers in Silicon Valley, especially when it comes to the debate on the effects of immigration on the employment...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5556 Date du document: 1 février 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Docquier,Frederic,Ozden,Caglar,Peri,Giovanni
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Emigration and democracy (anglais)
Migration is an important yet neglected determinant of institutions. This paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS5557 Date du document: 1 février 2011 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Docquier,Frederic,Lodigiani, Elisabetta,Rapoport,Hillel,Schiff,Maurice
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Diasporas (anglais)
Migration flows are shaped by a complex combination of self-selection and out-selection mechanisms. In this paper, the authors analyze how existing diasporas (the stock of people born in a country and...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4984 Date du document: 1 juillet 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beine,Michel,Docquier,Frederic,Ozden,Caglar
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International migration, transfers of norms and home country fertility (anglais)
This paper examines the relationship between international migration and source country fertility. The impact of international migration on source country fertility may have a number of causes, including...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4925 Date du document: 1 mai 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beine,Michel,Docquier,Frederic,Schiff,Maurice
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Measuring skilled migration rates : the case of small states (anglais)
Recent changes in information and communication technologies have contributed to a dramatic increase in the degree of integration and interdependency of countries, markets, and people. Against this background...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4827 Date du document: 1 janvier 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Docquier,Frederic,Schiff,Maurice
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A gendered assessment of the brain drain (anglais)
This paper updates and extends the Docquier-Marfouk data set on inter-national migration by educational attainment. The authors use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4613 Date du document: 1 mai 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Docquier,Frederic,Lowell,Briant Lindsay,Marfouk,Abdeslam
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Is migration a good substitute for education subsidies ? (anglais)
Assuming a given educational policy, the recent brain drain literature reveals that skilled migration can boost the average level of schooling in developing countries. This paper introduces educational...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4614 Date du document: 1 mai 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Docquier,Frederic,Faye, Ousmane,Pestieau,Pierre
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Brain drain in developing countries (anglais)
An original data set on international migration by educational attainment for 1990 and 2000 is used to analyze the determinants of brain drain from developing countries. The analysis starts with a simple...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77540 Date du document: 1 mai 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Docquier,Frederic,Lohest, Olivier,Marfouk,Abdeslam
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Measuring international skilled migration : a new database controlling for age of entry (anglais)
Recent data on international migration of skilled workers define skilled migrants by education level without distinguishing whether they acquired their education in the home or the host country. This article...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77544 Date du document: 1 mai 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beine,Michel,Docquier,Frederic,Rapoport,Hillel
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Measuring skilled emigration rates : the case of small states (anglais)
The economic policy and debt department of the World Bank launched a research program on economic growth and integration of small states to the World economy, which includes a series of economic growth...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 44308 Date du document: 1 mars 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Docquier,Frederic,Schiff,Maurice
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Brain drain and its determinants : a major issue for small states (anglais)
This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states' overall loss of human capital. The authors find that small states are the main losers...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 44263 Date du document: 1 mars 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Beine,Michel,Docquier,Frederic,Schiff,Maurice
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The medical brain drain from small states (anglais)
This paper is concerned with the measurement of the medical brain drain, with a particular focus on the situation of small states. There are no official statistics on the emigration of healthcare staff...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 44264 Date du document: 1 mars 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Docquier,Frederic,Schiff,Maurice
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The World Bank economic review 21 (2) (anglais)
This issue includes the following: migration, remittances, and the brain drain: a symposium in memory of Riccardo Faini - an introduction; by Jaime de Melo. Remittances and the brain drain: do more skilled...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 47685 Date du document: 1 janvier 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: De Melo,Jaime A. P.,Faini,Riccardo,Docquier,Frederic, Lohest, Olivier,Marfouk,Abdeslam,Yang,Dean, Choi, HwaJung, Reine, Michel,Rapoport,Hillel,Roodman,David Malin,Zhang,Xiaobo,Tan,Kong-Yam, Emerson, Patrick M., Portela Souza, Andre,Stifel,David C.,Christiaensen,Luc
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International migration, remittances, and the brain drain (anglais)
Knowledge of the economic effects of migration, especially its impact on economic development, is rather limited. In order to expand knowledge on migration, and identify policies and reforms that would...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 33988 Date du document: 1 janvier 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Schiff,Maurice,Ozden,Caglar,Mora,Jorge Antonio,Taylor,John Edward,Adams, Richar H. jr.,,Yang,Dean,Martinez, Claudia A.,McKenzie, David J.,Docquier,Frederic,Marfouk, Abdeslam,Chellaraj,Gnanaraj,Maskus,Keith E.,Mattoo,Aaditya
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Measuring the international mobility of skilled workers (1990-2000) : release 1.0 (anglais)
Until recently, there has been no systematic empirical assessment of the economic impact of the brain drain. Despite many case studies and anecdotal evidence, the main reason for this seems to be the lack...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3381 Date du document: 1 août 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Docquier,Frederic,Marfouk,Abdeslam
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Skilled migration: the perspective of developing countries (anglais)
The authors focus on the consequences of skilled migration for developing countries. They first present new evidence on the magnitude of migration of skilled workers at the international level and then...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3382 Date du document: 1 août 2004 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Docquier,Frederic,Rapoport,Hillel