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Of Remittances and Brain Drains

By immigrationprof

Two new articles discuss two important immigration-related issues — remittances (there is a huge flow of capital from immigrants in the United States to their native lands) and the so-called “brain drain” from the developing world of immigrants to the United States.

Remittances and the Brain Drain: Do More Skilled Migrants Remit More? Riccardo Faini World Bank Econ Rev 2007 21: 177-191. http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/177

Brain Drain in Developing Countries Frédéric Docquier, Olivier Lohest, and Abdeslam Marfouk World Bank Econ Rev 2007 21: 193-218. http://wber.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/2/193

Thanks for Dan Sokol of the Antitrust and Competition Policy Blog (here) for the links.

KJ