TY - BOOK ID - 137744992 TI - Migration and Education Decisions in A Dynamic General Equilibrium Framework AU - Dessus, Sebastien AU - Nahas, Charbel PY - 2008 PB - Washington, D.C., The World Bank, DB - UniCat KW - Currencies and Exchange Rates KW - Debt Markets KW - Dependency ratios KW - Economic Theory and Research KW - Education KW - Emerging Markets KW - Finance and Financial Sector Development KW - Health, Nutrition and Population KW - Human capital KW - Inequality KW - Investment and Investment Climate KW - Labor Markets KW - Labor Policies KW - Labor supply KW - Macroeconomics and Economic Growth KW - Migrant KW - Migration KW - Policy research KW - Policy research working paper KW - Population Policies KW - Poverty Reduction KW - Private Sector Development KW - Progress KW - Remittances KW - Skilled workers KW - Social Protections and Labor KW - Tertiary Education UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137744992 AB - With growing international skilled labor mobility, education and migration decisions have become increasingly inter-related, and potentially have a large impact on the growth trajectories of source countries, through their effects on labor supply, savings, or the cost of education. The authors develop a generic dynamic general equilibrium model to analyze the education-migration nexus in a consistent framework. They use the model as a laboratory to test empirical conditions for the existence of net brain gain, that is, greater domestic accumulation of human capital (in per capita terms) with greater migration of skilled workers. The results suggest that although some structural parameters can favor simultaneously greater human capital accumulation and greater skilled migration - such as high ratio of remittances over domestic incomes, high dependency ratios in migrant households, low dependency ratios in source countries, increasing returns to scale in the education sector, technological transfers and export market access with Diasporas, and efficient financial markets - this does not necessarily mean that greater migration encourages the constitution of greater stocks of human capital in source countries. ER -