@workingpaper{Asongu2013bi,
title = {Determinants of Health Professionals’ Migration in Africa: a WHO based Assessment},
author = {Simplice A Asongu},
editor = {African 2013 Governance and Development Institute WP/13/034},
url = {http://www.afridev.org/RePEc/agd/agd-wpaper/WHO-determinants-of-health-professional-migration.pdf},
year = {2013},
date = {2013-09-01},
abstract = {Purpose – How do economic prosperity, health expenditure, savings, price-stability,
demographic change, democracy, corruption-control, press-freedom, government effectiveness,
human development, foreign-aid, physical security, trade openness and financial liberalization
play-out in the fight against health-worker crisis when existing emigration levels matter? Despite
the acute concern of health-worker crisis in Africa owing to emigration, lack of relevant data has
made the subject matter empirically void over the last decades.
Design/methodology/approach – A quantile regression approach is used to assess the
determinants of health-worker emigration throughout the conditional distributions of healthworker
emigration. This provides an assessment of the determinants when existing emigrations
levels matter.
Findings – Findings provide a broad range of tools for the fight against health-worker braindrain.
As a policy implication, blanket emigration-control policies are unlikely to succeed
equally across countries with different levels of emigration. Thus to be effective, immigration
policies should be contingent on the prevailing levels of the crisis and tailored differently across
countries with the best and worst records on fighting health worker emigration.
Originality/value – This paper has examined the theoretical postulations of a WHO report on
determinants of health-worker migration.},
keywords = {Welfare; Health; Human Capital; Migration; Africa},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {workingpaper}
}