Brain Gain : Claims about its Size and Impact on Welfare and Growth Are Greatly Exaggerated

Based on static partial equilibrium analysis, the "new brain drain" literature argues that, by raising the return to education, a brain drain generates a brain gain that is, under certain conditions, larger than the brain drain itself, and that such a net brain gain results in an increase...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schiff, Maurice
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2005/09/6265717/brain-gain-claims-size-impact-welfare-growth-greatly-exaggerated
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8289