Frédéric Docquier (born in Huy (Belgium) on April 27, 1967) is a Belgian economist and Professor of Economics at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain).
Moreover, Docquier is also affiliated through research fellowships with IZA, CreAM, FERDI, and the Global Labor Organization.
Frédéric Docquier's research interests include quantitivative development theory, economic growth and, especially, international migration.
[5] Using new data sources on international skilled migration,[6] they find evidence for this effect in further research on skilled migration from developing countries, wherein those combining low levels of schooling with low emigration rates experience a beneficial brain drain.
[7] In a comprehensive review of economics research on the brain drain, Docquier and Rapoport find that high-skill emigration "need not deplete a country's human capital stock and can generative positive network externalities".