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  "title": "Emigration and Brain Drain: Evidence From the Caribbean",
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  "summary": "This paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and benefits. The Caribbean countries have lost 10-40 percent of their labor force due to emigration to OECD member countries.",
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      "content": "- The paper quantifies the magnitude and nature of migration flows from the Caribbean and estimates their costs and benefits.\n- The results suggest that there is indeed some evidence for brain drain from the Caribbean.\n- Simple welfare calculations suggest that the losses due to high-skill migration (ceteris paribus) outweigh the official remittances to the Caribbean region."
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      "heading": "Migration scale and composition",
      "content": "- Caribbean countries have lost 10-40 percent of their labor force due to emigration to OECD member countries.\n- Migration rates are particularly striking for the high-skilled: many countries have lost more than 70 percent of their labor force with more than 12 years of completed schooling—among the highest emigration rates in the world."
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      "content": "- The region is the world's largest recipient of remittances as a percent of GDP.\n- Remittances constituted about 13 percent of the region's GDP in 2002."
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    "Simple welfare calculations suggest that the losses due to high-skill migration (ceteris paribus) outweigh the official remittances to the Caribbean region.",
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    "The region is the world's largest recipient of remittances as a percent of GDP.",
    "Remittances constituted about 13 percent of the region's GDP in 2002.",
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