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International seminar organized by AFD and Lille University (Laboratoire Equippe)

Migrations and human capital
What are the impacts of emigration on developing countries?
 
30 June 2008 at Agence Française de Développement
M° or RER Gare de Lyon.
5 rue Roland Barthes, Jacques Alliot Conference Room
 
This seminar will address the consequences of international migrations on the economies of countries of origin. The first session will review the macroeconomic impacts of migrations. A focus will be to take stock of the “brain drain”, to gauge and define this phenomenon and determine which countries benefit from it and which countries suffer from it. The role of diasporas will also be analyzed with the aim of determining how they influence the number and socio-economic profile of migrants to a given country. The second session will be devoted to the microeconomic impacts of migrations and will thus provide responses to the following questions: who benefits from migrant remittances within households? How much of migrant remittances are devoted to the education of children and with what results? Are children from a family of a migrant privileged compared with other children in the country?
 
Presentations during the international seminar will be made in French or English, simultaneous translation will be available.
 
09:45-10:00
Welcome and introduction:
Robert Peccoud (Director of the Research Department, AFD)
10:00-12:30
Human capital and migrations: macroeconomic approaches
Chair: Maurice Schiff (World Bank)
Speakers:
  • Mark Rosenzweig (Yale University). The global migration of skills.
  • Michel Beine (University of Luxembourg) and Caglar Ozden (World Bank). Diasporas.
  • Frédéric Docquier (Louvain Catholic University) and Hillel Rapoport (EQUIPPE and Bar-Ilan University). Impacts of the brain drain on countries of origin.
12:30-14:00
Lunchtime free
14:00-16:30
Migrations: microeconomic impacts
 
Chair: Hubert Jayet (EQUIPPE, Lille 1 University)
Speakers:
  • David McKenzie (World Bank). The effects of migrations on children’s futures. The cases of Mexico and the Pacific Islands.
  • Philippe De Vreyer (Laboratoire EQUIPPE and DIAL). Who benefits from migrant remittances within beneficiary households?
  • Maurice Kugler (Center for International Development, Harvard University). Impacts of migrant remittances on the level of education in countries of origin. The case of Colombia.