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Eight Questions about Brain Drain

High-skilled emigration is an emotive issue that in popular discourse is often referred to as brain drain, conjuring images of extremely negative impacts on developing countries. Recent discussions of brain gain, diaspora effects, and other advantages of migration have been used to argue against this, but much of the discussion has been absent of evidence. This paper builds upon a new wave of empirical research to answer eight key questions underlying much of the brain drain debate: 1) What is brain drain? 2) Why should economists care about it? 3) Is brain drain increasing? 4) Is there a positive relationship between skilled and unskilled migration? 5) What makes brain drain more likely? 6) Does brain gain exist? 7) Do high-skilled workers remit, invest, and share knowledge back home? and 8) What do we know about the fiscal and production externalities of brain drain?

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CReAM Discussion Paper Series ; No. 11/11

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
Brain drain
Brain gain
High-skilled Emigration
Development

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Gibson, John
McKenzie, David
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London
(wo)
London
(wann)
2011

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Gibson, John
  • McKenzie, David
  • Centre for Research & Analysis of Migration (CReAM), Department of Economics, University College London

Entstanden

  • 2011

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