Assessment of Congolese Brain drain in OECD countries: Brain waste or Brain gain?

Abstract

Democratic Republic of Congo is trying to recover from decades of political and economic instability as well as internal conflict. This giant in natural resources but poor country is suffering from the lack of an effective human capital to boost the development process because of the weakness of its education system and the loss of its qualified migrants through migration and naturalization as in the latter case they are constrained by the article 10 of Congolese constitution to automatically lose their Congolese citizenship. This study is an investigation made on Congolese Qualified human resources performance in OECD countries labor market in order to assess the quality of their human capital relative to the place where they were educated and to assess their citizenship status in order to see at which extend the Congolese brain drain is brain waste or brain gain. Using a descriptive statistical analysis after separating migrants who studied in home country from those who studied in host country we assess their performance and the quality of their human capital which show qualification differences .Further analysis using bubble charts show us the extend of the Congolese Brain waste in two ways: by naturalization and by underutilization leading us to conclude that the Congolese brain drain is brain waste than potential brain gain.