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Losses and gains to developing countries from the migration of educated workers: An overview of recent research, and new reflections

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  • Stark, Oded
  • Fan, C. Simon

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This paper synthesizes and extends recent research on 'The New Economics of the Brain Drain.' In a unified framework, the paper shows that while recently identified adverse repercussions of the brain drain exacerbate the long-recognized negative impact of the brain drain, longer-term consequences turn the brain drain into the harbinger of powerful gains. These gains have been studied already in recent research, or merit attention in future research.

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  • Stark, Oded & Fan, C. Simon, 2007. "Losses and gains to developing countries from the migration of educated workers: An overview of recent research, and new reflections," EconStor Preprints 140804, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics.
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    Keywords

    International migration; Human capital formation; Overeducation; 'Educated unemployment'; Beneficial brain drain; Social welfare;
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    JEL classification:

    • F22 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Migration
    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
    • J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration

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