International migration, imperfect information, and brain drain

Domestic Distortions, Imperfect Information and the Brain Drain

Migration of International Medical Graduates: Implications for the Brain- Drain

Studies indicate that about 23 percent to 28 percent of the physicians working and residing in the United States, Canada, Australia, the UK and New Zealand were born and trained in the low-income countries, areas suffering from critical shortages of physicians and other health workers. In the US alone, the preponderance of the foreign physicians hails from South Africa, Philippines, India, Paki...

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International flows of high-skilled talent from developing countries to high-income OECD countries have grown in recent decades. Between 1970 and 1997, the number of foreign-born individuals in science and engineering occupations in the United States increased at three times the rate as that of natives, going from 7.6 percent in 1970 to 15 percent in 1997 (D’Costa, 2008). More recent data from ...

Externalities from International Labor Migration: Efficacy of a Brain Drain Tax in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

This paper uses a two-region, two-period overlapping generations model with international labor mobility to examine the efficacy of using tax policy to internalize the externalities created by international labor migration. While a brain drain tax has a substantial limiting effect on labor migration and a small negative effect on per worker growth, it is found to be a viable solution to the neg...

Globalization, Migration and Brain Drain: a Reality Check

Introduction Migration is as old as humanity. During the last decades it increased in intensity, importance and complexity. It takes places due to various reasons such as the quest for better living and working conditions (the so-called “pull” factors), the escape from violence, persecution and adverse conditions e.g. environmental catastrophes (the so-called “push” factors), and the smuggling ...