QUALIFIED VERSION OF MIGRATION: BRAIN DRAIN

Year 2009, Volume: 1 Issue: 2, 15 - 29, 01.12.2009

Ayhan Gencler

Abstract

Though globalization suggests an international exchange of people besides goods and capital, developed countries often tended to put forward some restrictions on the migration of workers from developed countries. However, there has been an increase in skilled international migration especially during the last two decades. Skilled international migration or brain drain points out the emigration of educated and highly skilled workers. It seems that, in general, developing or underdeveloped countries experience the negative consequences of the brain drain and suffer from the decreases in their human capital. The paper explains the phenomenon of skilled international migration, or brain drain, and summarizes the main global trends in this area

Keywords

Migration, Brain Drain, Globalization

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