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III.2 Migration of Medical Doctors: A Cooperative Framework
This sub-part is devoted to showing that further and mutual cooperation is among the possibilities
that can transform brain-drain into mutual brain-gain for players that are in the North and South.
A game theoretical framework is introduced in relation to migration patterns related to medical
doctors.
This sub-part deals with the issue of coordinating migration of medical doctors amongst
coalitions, with eventual application to the context of the Mediteranean areas with the
Euroepan Union and MENA countries. It investigates the mainly the directions of
incentives of agents and countries to share a common framework that mutually value
skilled health labor force. It examines what kind of incentives can be suggested based on
the positive outcomes from migration to both parties from medical doctors. The
definition of “acceptability” is twofold. First, the river sharing agreement (or allocation)
should be stable in the sense that no users or group of users are better off designing
another river sharing agreement. Furthermore, it should be perceived as fair according to
certain justice principles. This issue is tackled using cooperative game theory. The paper
describes the cooperative game induced by a river sharing problem, and analyzes the
stable river sharing agreements in this cooperative game. Next, it considers standard
axiomatic principles of fair division and adapts them to the migration of medical doctors.
It conceives fair sharing rules for both the welfare of the sending as well as of the
receiving country.
This latter issue is addressed using a cooperative framework with “utility transfer” and
“side payments” to formalize the relationship between a sending and a receiving country.
The intuition behind this approach is that a coalition can be formed based on an
agreement between for example, Morocco and one country from the European Union, or
between Morocco and the European Union. This agreement would set the terms of trade
between the two countries in defining the checks and balances for a free circulation of
medical doctors.
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