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| June 2008 |
| The Brain Drain between Knowledge Based
Economies: the European Human Capital
Outflows to the US |
| Ahmed Tritah |
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| This paper uses the 1980, 1990, 2000 and 2006 U.S. micro censuses data to document the
magnitude and nature of European human capital outflow to the United States. I found that
while emigration is about a small number of individuals, the share of Europeans who are
leaving is increasing as one moves along the educational distribution and ladder of occupations
that matter the most in the knowledge economy. Next, using productivity based brain
drain indices it is found that aggregate human capital conveyed by emigrants has increased
since the 1990s. Finally, as a better understanding on the nature of human capital embodied
in European emigrants, I show that the Europeans earn a positive wage premium relative to
the US natives. Moreover, this premium is higher for the most recent expatriates cohorts,
providing further evidence that the quality of European emigrants has increased. |
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non-technique
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| Emigration; brain-drain; human capital; knowledge economy; Europe-US |
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| F22; J24; O15; 052 |
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