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International migration, remittances, and brain drain
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World Bank
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2005.
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English
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9780821363720
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Part I Migration and Remittances 19 --
1 Determinants of Migration, Destination, and Sector Choice: Disentangling Individual, Household, and Community Effects / Jorge Mora, J. Edward Taylor 21 --
2 Remittances, Poverty, and Investment in Guatemala / Richard H. Adams, Jr. 53 --
3 Remittances and Poverty in Migrants' Home Areas: Evidence from the Philippines / Dean Yang, Claudia A. Martinez 81 --
4 Beyond Remittances: The Effects of Migration on Mexican Households / David J. McKenzie 123 --
Part II Brain Drain, Brain Gain, Brain Waste 149 --
5 International Migration by Education Attainment, 1990-2000 / Frederic Docquier, Abdeslam Marfouk 151 --
6 Brain Gain: Claims about Its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated / Maurice Schiff 201 --
7 Educated Migrants: Is There Brain Waste? / Caglar Ozden 227 --
8 Skilled Immigrants, Higher Education, and U.S. Innovation / Gnanaraj Chellaraj, Keith E. Maskus, Aaditya Mattoo 245 --
1.1 Labor Migrants as Percentage of Mexican Village Populations, by Migrant Destination, 1980-2002 23 --
1.2 Labor Migrants as Percentage of Mexican Village Populations, by Migrant Destination and Sector of Employment, 1980-2002 33 --
3.1 Exchange Rates in Selected Locations of Overseas Filipinos, July 1996 to October 1998 87 --
4.1 Estimated Probability of a Household Head Migrating, by Household Consumption Level at Different Deciles of the Community Migration Prevalence Distribution 134 --
6.1 Brain Gain, Brain Drain, and Net Brain Gain 205 --
6.2 Endogenous Migration Probability 206 --
6.3 Group Heterogeneity 208 --
6.4 Brain Drain and LDC's Growth 219 --
7.1 Distribution of a[subscript j] 228 --
7.2 Migration Patterns from Select Countries 233 --
7.3 Migration Patterns from Select Countries for People with Tertiary Education 234 --
7.4 Tertiary Education at Home and among Immigrants to the United States, 1990s 235 --
7.5 Composition of Migrants to Europe and the United States by Education 236 --
7.6 Portion of Migrants with Tertiary Education Who Obtain Skilled Jobs, 1990s Arrivals 238 --
8.1 Skilled Immigrants 247 --
8.2 H1B Beneficiaries, 1992-2003 248 --
8.3 Foreign Students 248 --
8.4 H1B Beneficiaries by Country, 2003 254 --
1.1 Descriptive Statistics 28 --
1.2 Variable Means by Migrant Destination and Sector of Employment 30 --
1.3 One- and Two-Destination Multinomial Logit Model Results 34 --
1.4 Two-Destination, Two-Sector Multinomial Logit Model Results 36 --
1.5 Estimated Marginal Effects on Migration Probabilities 42 --
1.6 Estimated Marginal Effects on Migration-Sector Probabilities 43 --
1.7 Baseline Probability for Each Migration Destination-Sector Regime 44 --
2.1 Summary Data on Nonremittance Households and Remittance-Receiving Households, Guatemala, 2000 56 --
2.2 Multinomial Logit Model for Guatemala 60 --
2.3 Household Income Estimates (Selection Corrected) for Guatemala 62 --
2.4 Regression to Estimate Predicted Per Capita Household Expenditure (Excluding Remittances) 65 --
2.5 Predicted Per Capita Expenditures for Nonremittance Households and Remittance-Receiving Households, Guatemala, 2000 67 --
2.6 Effect of Remittances on Poverty for Nonremittance Households and Remittance-Receiving Households, Guatemala, 2000 69 --
2.7 OLS Regression Analysis of Household Expenditure in Guatemala, without Remittance Variables 72 --
2.8 OLS Regression Analysis of Household Expenditure in Guatemala, with Remittance Variables 74 --
2.9 Marginal Budget Shares on Expenditure for Nonremittance Households and Remittance-Receiving Households, Guatemala, 2000 76 --
3.1 Locations of Overseas Workers from Sample Households 85 --
3.2 Characteristics of Overseas Workers from Sample Households 86 --
3.3 Descriptive Statistics for Households with Overseas Migrants 94 --
3.4 Descriptive Statistics for Households without Overseas Migrants 96 --
3.5 Impact of Migrant Exchange Rate Shocks, 1997-8 102 --
3.6 Impact of Region-Level Migrant Exchange Rate Shocks on Nonmigrant Households, 1997-8 108 --
3.7 Impact of Region-Level Migrant Exchange Rate Shocks, 1997-8 111 --
3.8 Impact of Migrant Exchange Rate Shocks on Child Human Capital and Entrepreneurship, 1997-8 114 --
4.1 Impact of Migration on Health Outcomes and Health Inputs 129 --
4.2 Impact of Migration on Maternal Health Knowledge 131 --
4.3 Network Size and Probability of Migration 133 --
4.4 Impact of Migration on Consumption Inequality in ENADID Communities 136 --
4.5 Impact of Migration on Years of Schooling 140 --
5.1 Data Sources 162 --
5.2 International Mobility by Educational Attainment-An Overview 164 --
5.3 Data by Country Group in 2000 170 --
5.4 Top 30 Skilled Immigration Countries 2000 175 --
5.5 Net Brain Gain in OECD Countries in 1990 178 --
5.6 Net Brain Gain in OECD Countries in 2000 182 --
6.1 Impact of the Brain Drain on Education 220 --
7.1 Country-Level Determinants of Probability of Obtaining A Skilled Job, 1990s 241 --
7.2 Country-Level Determinants of Probability of Obtaining A Skilled Job, 1990s, with European Migration Policy Indicators 242 --
8.1 Impacts of Foreign Graduate Students and Skilled Immigrants on Patent Applications and Grants, 1965-2001 252.
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