Eight Questions About Brain Drain
By John Gibson, David J. McKenzie. Social Science Research Network, 2011
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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?
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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- Global Collaborative Patents (2018, unknown): “We first describe the patent data set and the assignment of 2 Broad reviews of diaspora effects include Rauch (2001), Freeman (2006), Clemens (2009, 2011), Gibson and McKenzie (2011) and Docquier and Rapoport (2012).”
- The Impact of Migration on Family Left Behind (2012, background): “Lahaie et al. (2009) find that the migration of a caregiver-spouse is significantly associated with academic, behavioral and emotional problems for children left behind in Mexico.”
- High-level talent flow and its influence on regional unbalanced development in China (2018, methodology): “…tend to flow to areas with high levels of science and technology, liveable environments, sufficient funding for research and good salaries (Gibson & Mckenzie, 2011), which means that the developed countries (DCs) are the major destinations, while the less developed countries (LDCs) are…”