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y the enhancement of the level of the human capital in the countries of origin of
emigration.
This research focuses on the migration of medical doctors from both MENA and ECE
with EU countries as destinations. It aims at discussing the outcomes of this migration in
relation to new economic and social policies that account for the interests of the
destination and origin economies. Several publications have discussed the complex issue
of emigration of medical doctors but results have so far been limited in their economic
policy implications. Furthermore, the empirical side of these analyzes have sometimes
overlooked the migration flows between the EU, the ECE and the MENA regions,
especially that countries from the latter sets entertain a large array of institutional
arrangements with EU.
The major factors related to the decisions of emigrant medical doctors can be
methodologically captured using economic models of risk neutrality and aversion.
Previous research has shown that the relative expected benefits from emigration as well
as its rate have major effects on the net relative human medical capital that remains in the
country of origin. Besides the yield of education, the effects of relative wages in the
destination and sending countries are likely to change the emigration patterns.
Comparisons of theoretical and observed relative human capital per country averages are
to be conducted to test the statistical validity of the new economics implications of the
model. The empirical analysis is to based on the available data by Docquier and Marfouk
(2006 and 2008) and Bhargava, Docquier and Moullan (2010) besides other sources as
provided by OECD (2010) and WHO (2010).
This enterprise will allow further use of theoretical and empirical models to understand
the current trends of emigration of medical doctors on both the destination and origin
countries. The Implications of this structure would infirm of confirm the previous
findings in other countries that emphasize the importance of the magnitude of relative
wages; the level of education and the attitude towards risk as likely determinants of the
emigration of medical doctors.
I.1.2.1 Statement of the Research Issue
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