The Political Economy of Brain Drain and Talent Capture
The Political Economy of Brain Drain and Talent Capture

Author: Adam Tyson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0429773161

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Brain drain and talent capture are important issues globally, and especially crucial in countries such as Malaysia and Singapore, which aspire to be innovation-driven advanced economies. This book provides a thorough analysis of the impact of brain drain on middle-income Malaysia and high-income Singapore, where the political salience of the problem in both countries is high. It discusses the wider issues associated with brain drain, such as when rich countries increase their already plentiful stocks of, for example, medical practitioners and engineers at the expense of relatively poor countries, examines the policies put in place in Malaysia and Singapore to counter the problem and explores how the situation is further complicated in Malaysia and Singapore because of these countries’ extensive state interventionism and sociopolitical tensions and hierarchies based on ethnicity, religion and nationality. Overall, the book contends that talent enrichment initiatives serve to construct and secure privilege and ethnic hierarchy within and between countries, as well as to reinforce the political power base of governments.

Brain Drain and Brain Gain
Brain Drain and Brain Gain

Author: Herbert Brücker

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-07-26

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 0199654824

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Part II examines the consequences of brain drain for the sending countries.

Institutional Impact of the Brain Drain, Human Capital and Inequality
Institutional Impact of the Brain Drain, Human Capital and Inequality

Author: Maurice Schiff

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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This paper examines the impact of the brain drain, human capital and inequality on institutions in a country where a rent-seeking elite levies a tax on the residents in migrants' home country, and where skilled migrants and skilled and unskilled residents can affect the likelihood of regime change by voicing. With all impacts related to institutional quality, the main findings are: i) the impact of the brain drain m is U-shaped, with a maximum when the host country sets its immigration quota equal to zero (m=0); ii) the impact of human capital h is U-shaped as well, and it is U-shaped with respect m; iii) the likelihood institutional quality improves with human capital falls with both domestic and North-South inequality, and the likelihood it improves with the brain drain falls with North-South inequality; and v) a host country's twin objectives of improving a high-brain-drain country's institutions and reducing its brain drain cannot be achieved through a small reduction in its immigration quota, though it can be achieved with a sufficiently large reduction in it.

How Can Developing Countries Deal With The Brain Drain
How Can Developing Countries Deal With The Brain Drain

Author: Markus Stegmann

Publisher: GRIN Verlag

Published: 2010-04-20

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 3640597826

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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - Topic: Globalization, Political Economics, grade: 1,7, Maastricht University, course: Globalisation and Inequality, language: English, abstract: 2.9 per cent of the world population have been migrants in the year 2000. In numbers this means, that 175 million people have redistributed. As the World Migration Report points out “(...) the most significant changes in recent years have been an increased concentration of migrants in the developed world and in a small number of countries.” (International Organization of Migration, 2005, p. 379). Of special interest for the developed countries is the immigration of high skilled professionals, for example scientists and engineers. Countries like Germany are facing two problems. The fertility rate is low and therefore the population is shrinking. Moreover the demand to skilled professionals cannot be responded from the native population. At the same time well educated people from developing countries are leaving their homes to work as specialists in high-tech industries like biotechnology, nanotechnology or information technology (IT). In developing countries the emigration rate of skilled people in the year 2000 was much higher (7.3%), than the whole emigration rate (1.5%). Although the rate of skilled workers has decreased from 7.7% since 1990, some countries still face a huge loss of brains (Docquier; Marfouk, 2007, p. 198).

Challenges to Globalization
Challenges to Globalization

Author: Robert E. Baldwin

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 560

ISBN-13: 0226036553

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People passionately disagree about the nature of the globalization process. The failure of both the 1999 and 2003 World Trade Organization's (WTO) ministerial conferences in Seattle and Cancun, respectively, have highlighted the tensions among official, international organizations like the WTO, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, nongovernmental and private sector organizations, and some developing country governments. These tensions are commonly attributed to longstanding disagreements over such issues as labor rights, environmental standards, and tariff-cutting rules. In addition, developing countries are increasingly resentful of the burdens of adjustment placed on them that they argue are not matched by commensurate commitments from developed countries. Challenges to Globalization evaluates the arguments of pro-globalists and anti-globalists regarding issues such as globalization's relationship to democracy, its impact on the environment and on labor markets including the brain drain, sweat shop labor, wage levels, and changes in production processes, and the associated expansion of trade and its effects on prices. Baldwin, Winters, and the contributors to this volume look at multinational firms, foreign investment, and mergers and acquisitions and present surprising findings that often run counter to the claim that multinational firms primarily seek countries with low wage labor. The book closes with papers on financial opening and on the relationship between international economic policies and national economic growth rates.

The Brain Drain
The Brain Drain

Author: Péter Vas-Zoltán

Publisher:

Published: 1976

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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Monograph on the implications of the brain drain for international relations - covers political aspects, economic implications, the reliability of relevant statistical data, the causes of immigration losses resulting from the brain drain, the myth of 'flood-back' (gains from return migrations), etc., and comments on the promotion of immigration by legislation. Bibliography pp. 145 to 151, references and statistical tables.

International Migration, Remittances and Brain Drain
International Migration, Remittances and Brain Drain

Author: Serge Feld

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2022-08-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783030755157

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This book provides an analysis of theoretical and empirical researches on the effects of remittances and brain drain on the development of less developed countries (LDCs). It analyzes the most recent global, regional and national data as well as the arguments for and against the emigration of highly skilled personnel and remittances, thereby highlighting policies aimed at optimizing the link between migration and development. The book examines in depth the arguments against "brain drain", namely the loss of skilled labor, wasted public investment in higher education, and reduced tax revenues. It also presents the arguments in favor, emphasizing on the transfer of scientific knowledge, the incentive effect of increased education spending, and participation in international networks. It addresses the central issue of emigration of medical personnel from developing countries and its consequences on the population.The book focuses on the effects of remittances on poverty and inequalities. They improve health conditions, raise education levels and empower women. Positive effects include the stabilizing function of remittances and the improvement of external accounts. Other effects are subject to conflicting assessments such as the reduction of labor supply and the "Dutch disease". The focus is on institutions who integrate economic, social and political incentives in order to establish remittances at the heart of development policies.The book provides a reference for students and research centers devoted to development economics, centers for international migration studies, and research units focusing on population, migration, and development.

Corruption, Development and Institutional Design
Corruption, Development and Institutional Design

Author: J. Kornai

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-02-25

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0230242170

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With the aim of providing a comprehensive analysis of institutions, and of the global economy more generally, this volume explores systems of institutions and the effect of corruption, developments in behavioural economics, the impact of immigration, and the links between democratic progress and economic growth.