Remittances and the Brain Drain Revisited : The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More

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dc.creatorBollard, Albert
dc.creatorMcKenzie, David
dc.creatorMorten, Melanie
dc.creatorRapoport, Hillel
dc.date2013-05-20T21:00:13Z
dc.date2013-05-20T21:00:13Z
dc.date2011-01-30
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T01:09:58Z
dc.descriptionTwo of the most salient trends in migration and development over the last two decades are the large rise in remittances and in the flow of skilled migrants. However, recent literature based on cross-country regressions has claimed that more educated migrants remit less, leading to concerns that further increases in skilled migration will impede remittance growth. Microdata from surveys of immigrants in 11 major destination countries are used to revisit the relationship between education and remitting behavior. The data show a mixed pattern between education and the likelihood of remitting, and a strong positive relationship between education and amount remitted (intensive margin), conditional on remitting at all (extensive margin). Combining these intensive and extensive margins yields an overall positive effect of education on the amount remitted for the pooled sample, with heterogeneous results across destinations. The microdata allow investigation of why the more educated remit more, showing that the higher income earned by migrants, rather than family characteristics, explains much of the higher remittances.
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dc.identifierWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.identifier1564-698X
dc.identifierdoi:10.1093/wber/lhr013
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/13469
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.1596/13468
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/415756
dc.languageen_US
dc.publisherWorld Bank
dc.relationWorld Bank Economic Review
dc.relationWorld Bank Economic Review;25(1)
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectBrain Drain
dc.subjectcountry of origin
dc.subjectdeveloping countries
dc.subjectEducated Migrants
dc.subjectfamily composition
dc.subjectfamily members
dc.subjectillegal migrants
dc.subjectimmigrant
dc.subjectimmigrants
dc.subjectimmigration
dc.subjectimmigration policies
dc.subjectimpact of education
dc.subjectmigrant
dc.subjectmigration
dc.subjectprimary education
dc.subjectremittance
dc.subjectRemittances
dc.subjectskill level
dc.subjectskilled migrants
dc.subjecttertiary education
dc.titleRemittances and the Brain Drain Revisited : The Microdata Show That More Educated Migrants Remit More
dc.typeJournal Article
dc.typeArticle de journal
dc.typeArtículo de revista

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