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International Migration, the Brain Drain and Poverty:A Cross Country Analysis

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  • Cristina Cattaneo

    (Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, University of Sussex and LIUC.)

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The aim of the paper is threefold. First it empirically investigates the effect of international migration on poverty in origin countries, using data from a cross country analysis. Second it investigates the specific part of the income distribution from which migrants are drawn from, by comparing the effect of international migration on different income quintiles of the population. Finally it casts some light upon the implications of the brain drain on poverty. To capture the level of international migration, a variable is computed from a new data set, personally constructed, which contains bi-lateral information on the number of migrants produced by 149 origin nations and resident in 23 OECD destinations.

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  • Cristina Cattaneo, 2008. "International Migration, the Brain Drain and Poverty:A Cross Country Analysis," KITeS Working Papers 212, KITeS, Centre for Knowledge, Internationalization and Technology Studies, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy, revised Jan 2008.
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    Keywords

    International Migration; Migration Network; Brain Drain; Poverty.;
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    JEL classification:

    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • I3 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

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