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Brain Circulation: The Educational Profile of Return Migrants
Countries increasingly compete to attract and retain human capital. However, empirical studies, particularly those of migrants moving back to developing countries, have been limited due to the lack of education-specific migration flow data. Drawing on census microdata from IPUMS, we derive flow data...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8075014/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33935340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11113-021-09655-6 |
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author | Chen, Chen Bernard, Aude Rylee, Ryan Abel, Guy |
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description | Countries increasingly compete to attract and retain human capital. However, empirical studies, particularly those of migrants moving back to developing countries, have been limited due to the lack of education-specific migration flow data. Drawing on census microdata from IPUMS, we derive flow data by level of education and age group to quantify the level of return migration and examine the educational and age profile of return migrants for a global sample of 60 countries representing 70% of the world population. We show that return migrants account for a significant share of in-migration flows, particularly in Africa and Latin America, and, in all countries but six, return migrants are more educated than the population in the migrants’ country of birth. Our age decomposition reveals that young adults contribute the most to the positive educational selectivity of return migrants, particularly in Africa and Asia. While this paper does not quantify the net effect of return migration on education levels, it underlines the importance of the human capital contributions of young adult returnees. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11113-021-09655-6. |
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spelling | pubmed-80750142021-04-27 Brain Circulation: The Educational Profile of Return Migrants Chen, Chen Bernard, Aude Rylee, Ryan Abel, Guy Popul Res Policy Rev Research Briefs Countries increasingly compete to attract and retain human capital. However, empirical studies, particularly those of migrants moving back to developing countries, have been limited due to the lack of education-specific migration flow data. Drawing on census microdata from IPUMS, we derive flow data by level of education and age group to quantify the level of return migration and examine the educational and age profile of return migrants for a global sample of 60 countries representing 70% of the world population. We show that return migrants account for a significant share of in-migration flows, particularly in Africa and Latin America, and, in all countries but six, return migrants are more educated than the population in the migrants’ country of birth. Our age decomposition reveals that young adults contribute the most to the positive educational selectivity of return migrants, particularly in Africa and Asia. While this paper does not quantify the net effect of return migration on education levels, it underlines the importance of the human capital contributions of young adult returnees. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s11113-021-09655-6. Springer Netherlands 2021-04-26 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8075014/ /pubmed/33935340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11113-021-09655-6 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. |
spellingShingle | Research Briefs Chen, Chen Bernard, Aude Rylee, Ryan Abel, Guy Brain Circulation: The Educational Profile of Return Migrants |
title | Brain Circulation: The Educational Profile of Return Migrants |
title_full | Brain Circulation: The Educational Profile of Return Migrants |
title_fullStr | Brain Circulation: The Educational Profile of Return Migrants |
title_full_unstemmed | Brain Circulation: The Educational Profile of Return Migrants |
title_short | Brain Circulation: The Educational Profile of Return Migrants |
title_sort | brain circulation: the educational profile of return migrants |
topic | Research Briefs |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8075014/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33935340 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11113-021-09655-6 |
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