Brain Drain

Frédéric Docquier; Hillel Rapoport

doi:https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1986-1

Brain Drain

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Abstract

The term ‘brain drain’ designates the international transfer of human resources and mainly applies to the migration of relatively highly educated individuals from developing to developed countries. While the brain drain has long been viewed as detrimental to poor countries’ growth potential, recent economic research emphasizes a number of positive feedback effects arising from skilled migrants’ participation in business networks, and suggests that under certain conditions the prospect of migration can positively affect human capital accumulation in the source countries.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics
Editors	Matias Vernengo, Esteban Perez Caldentey, Barkley J. Rosser Jr.
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-349-95121-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95121-5_1986-1
Publication status	Published - Dec 2016
Externally published	Yes

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