Human Capital Flight Impact of Migrationon Income and Growth

This paper analyses the impact of government tax and subsidy policy on immigration of human capital and the effect of such immigration on growth and incomes. In the context of a two-country endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents and human capital accumulation, we argue that human capital...

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Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 1994
Series:IMF Working Papers
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653 |a Labour 
653 |a Human capital 
653 |a International Migration 
653 |a Migration, immigration & emigration 
653 |a Long-term Capital Movements 
653 |a Emigration and immigration 
653 |a Skills 
653 |a Exports and Imports 
653 |a International economics 
653 |a Labor 
653 |a Education 
653 |a Labor Productivity 
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653 |a Education: General 
653 |a Labor Economics: General 
653 |a Macroeconomics 
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653 |a Capital outflows 
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653 |a International Investment 
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520 |a This paper analyses the impact of government tax and subsidy policy on immigration of human capital and the effect of such immigration on growth and incomes. In the context of a two-country endogenous growth model with heterogeneous agents and human capital accumulation, we argue that human capital flight or “brain drain” arising out of wage differentials, say because of differences in income tax rates or technology, can bring about a reduction in the steady state growth rate of the country of emigration. Additionally, permanent difference in the growth rates as well as incomes between the two countries can occur making convergence unlikely. While in a closed economy, tax-financed increases in subsidy to education can have a positive effect on growth, such a policy can have a negative effect on growth when human capital flight is taking place. Since subsidizing higher education is more likely to induce substantial brain drain, it is likely to be inferior to subsidy to lower levels of education if growth is to be increased