BRAIN DRAIN AND BRAIN GAIN FRD: NCS C (Reports for the Fondazione Rodolfo Debenedetti) - Hardcover

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After obtaining his Ph.D. in Economics from New York University, Tito Boeri was senior economist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) from 1987 to 1996. In this position, among other things, he coordinated all the work carried out by the OECD in the field of human resource policies in the central and eastern European economies in transition after 1990. He was also consultant to the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. Professor Boeri teaches courses on labour economics and the economics of transition and he is affiliated with the Innocenzo Gasparini Institute for Economic Research (IGIER). He is research fellow of CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) and of the Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan.


Herbert Brücker studied economics, sociology, and politics at the University of Frankfurt am Main, where he received his doctoral degree in economics in 1994. He received his Habilitation degree in economics from the University of Technology (TU) in Berlin in 2005. He holds the positions of Visiting Professor at the Aarhus School of Business, of senior researcher at the German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin) and the German Development Institute (GDI), and of research associate at the University of Frankfurt.


Frédéric Docquier is a Consultant for the World Bank and Economic Advisor at the Regional Government of Wallonia. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Aix-Marseille 2. His research interests are in computable general equilibrium models, intergenerational transfers and aging, international migration, and economic development.


Hillel Rapoport holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Paris II. He has been Visiting Assistant Professor at the Stanford University. He also serves or has served as consultant on migration issues for the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the G-20, and the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research. Hillel's research focuses on the growth and developmental impact of migration on source countries.