Highly Skilled International Migration, STEM Workers, and Innovation

International migration of the highly skilled: economics, ethics and taxes.

Research Issues in the International Migration of Highly Skilled Workers: A Perspective with Data from the United States

This paper provides an overview of research issues related to the effects of the growing migration of highly skilled workers on the world economy and economic policy, with special reference to the international mobility of scientists and engineers. It points out U.S. data sets (collected by the National Science Foundation's Division of Science Resources Statistics, other Government agencies, an...

Migration and "Low-Skilled" Workers in Destination Countries

1 Health Inequalities Research Group, Employment Conditions Knowledge Network (GREDS-EMCONET), Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, 2 CIBER Epidemiologı́a y Salud Pública (CIBERESP), Barcelona, Spain, 3 Bloomberg Faculty of Nursing and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 4 Department of Po...

Social Justice and the Migration of Highly Skilled Elites

International Migration of Skilled and Unskilled Labour, Welfare and Skilled-unskilled Wage Inequality: a Simple Model

The paper shows that in a reasonable production structure for a developing economy a brain drain of skilled labour may raise the welfare of the economy while an emigration of unskilled labour is welfare reducing. Also an emigration of skilled/unskilled labour lowers the urban unemployment of unskilled labour and widens the skilled-unskilled wage-gap. The paper provides an alternative explanatio...