BRAIN DRAIN IN TURKEY: AN INVESTIGATION ON THE LEADING MOTIVES OF SKILLED MIGRATION

Year 2019, Volume: 6 Issue: 7, 322 - 339, 15.08.2019

Hasan Ağan Karaduman Elif Çoban

Abstract

Migration
has recently gained importance in emerging economies. This study is mainly
elaborated on international movements of skilled labor in Turkey. In this study
movements of the skilled human capital, which takes a role as a factor of
production in understanding the different levels of prosperity and income among
countries in the new growth theories, has been discussed with the scope of the
“brain drain”. As an integral part of international migration, the brain drain
originated from the developing countries leads to deterioration in the source
economy while high-skilled immigrants improve productivity and innovation in
the destination country. A sample of 148 Turkish citizens with tertiary
education residing abroad is chosen to conduct a survey about the underlying
motives for leaving the origin country and choosing the destination country.
After the detailed descriptive analysis of the cross-sectional survey data, the
push and pull factors in the light of “stay” or “go” decision are discussed.

Keywords

International Labor Migration, Human Capital, Skilled Migration, Brain Drain

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