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The brain drain as exploitation

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  • Paul Bou-Habib

    (University of Essex, UK)

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When skilled individuals emigrate from developing states to developed states, they leave a burdened state behind and bring their valuable human capital to a state that enjoys vast advantages by comparison. Most of the normative debate to date on this so-called ‘brain drain’ has focused on the duties that skilled emigrants owe to their home state after they emigrate. This article shifts the focus to the question of whether their host state acquires special duties toward their home state and argues for an affirmative answer to that question. After identifying the conditions under which ‘exploitative free-riding’ can occur, the article shows that the brain drain is a case of exploitation that gives rise to special duties of compensation for developed host states.

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  • Paul Bou-Habib, 2022. "The brain drain as exploitation," Politics, Philosophy & Economics, , vol. 21(3), pages 249-268, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:pophec:v:21:y:2022:i:3:p:249-268
    DOI: 10.1177/1470594X211027259
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