The pro-trade effect of the brain drain: Sorting out confounding factors

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Jung, Benjamin

doi:10.1016/j.econlet.2009.04.017

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“…When the three educational groups are included (column 5), there is a significant impact only for primary and tertiary educated migrants, the latter being more than three times the former, in line with Felbermayr and Jung (2009) (who use a different database for years 2000 and 2010), despite they obtained a significant but negative impact of secondaryeducated migrants on trade.…”

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“…This possibility is explored, for instance, in Felbermayr and Jung (2009), who exploit the panel nature of their data to check it. Briant et al (2009), Peri and Requena (2010) and Bratti et al (2011) use historical immigrant enclaves (i.e.…”

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“…However, the existing evidence is somehow mixed. Using country-level data, Felbermayr and Jung (2009) find that the effect of high-educated migrants is positive but the one of medium-educated migrants is negative. Using firm-level data, Hatzigeorgiou and Lodefalk (2011) find that the impact of low-educated migrants is higher than that of the high-educated.…”

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“…Most papers analyze a single country and its multiple trading partners (such as Head and Ries, 1998;Dunlevy and Hutchinson, 2001;Girma and Yu, 2002;Blanes-Cristóbal, 2003;Hatzigeorgiou, 2010). The main exceptions are Felbermayr and Toubal (2008), who perform cross-section analysis, and Felbermayr and Jung (2009), who use panel data. Other papers focus on the trade and migration links between province/regions of a country and its trading partners (Wagner et al, 2002;Co et al, 2004;Bardhan and Guhathakurta, 2005;Herander and Saavedra, 2005;Dunlevy, 2006;Bandyopadhyay et al, 2008;Peri and Requena-Silvente, 2010).…”

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Informing migration policies: a data primer

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Özden³

2014

International Handbook on Migration and Economic Development

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author.IZA Discussion Paper No. 8745 December 2014 ABSTRACT Informing Migration Policies: A Data PrimerResearchers in many fields, such as demography, economics, and sociology, have established various data collection methodologies and principles to answer a range of academic and policy questions on migration. Although the progress has been impressive, some basic challenges remain. This paper addresses some basic, yet fundamental, questions on identification of international migrants and how their various demographic, personal, and human capital characteristics are captured via different data sources. The critical issues are the construction of proper sampling frames in censuses, registers, and surveys and the design of questionnaires in household, labor market, and other relevant surveys. The paper discusses how these data sources can be used to answer policy questions in areas such as labor markets, education, or poverty. The focus is on how some of the existing shortcomings in availability, quality, and relevance of migration data can be overcome via improvements in data collection methods.JEL Classification: F22, J61, O15

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“…My estimates are those corresponding to the preferred base sample. Other articles' estimates are the following: the OLS fixed effects result for Aleksynska and Peri (2011), the benchmark OLS result for APR, the differenced result for Felbermayr and Jung (2009), the Tobit result for HS (2005), and the full sample result for White (2007). Figures for column 3 are generated according to the reported elasticities, multiplying the respective elasticity by the ratio of average state-state exports to average state-state stock of migrants; ---denotes that I found neither the corresponding summary statistics nor the estimate of the annual value of extra exports generated per migrant.…”

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The third essay analyzes the potentially enormous wage gains that may motivate international migration, an activity which is limited to some extent by governments across the entire world. Freer human mobility and the effects of migration on the migrants themselves have not garnered nearly as much attention as numerous other topics related to the economics of migration. I present novel data collected through household interviews in communities both in Mexico and the United States, comparing the absolute and relative wage gains for interviewees with data from existing Mexican surveys. Migrants indeed stand to collect large net gains; average incomes increase more than fivefold immediately, moving from the lower deciles of origin wage distributions to the top deciles. These results surpass those of some of the most successful current programs of economic development.

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The pro-trade effect of the brain drain: Sorting out confounding factors

Cited by 71 publications

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International trade and migrant networks: Is It really about qualifications?

International trade and migrant networks: Is It really about qualifications?

Informing migration policies: a data primer

Essays on Migration: Nexus with Policy, Trade, and Development

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