Muscle drain versus brain gain in association football: technology transfer through player emigration and manager immigration

Brain drain, brain gain or brain sharing?

Scientists have always been ‘sans frontières’, driven by the need to acquire new knowledge and skills and to cooperate with colleagues irrespective of national borders or political divides. In fact, the migration of scientists between countries at all career stages has increased steadily over time. In a related but distinct trend, the incidence of co-authorship reflecting greater international ...

Brain Drain in Romania: Factors Influencing Physicians’ Emigration

Brain drain in the medical sector is not a new phenomenon, Romania facing this issue since the fall of the communism. Before the integration in the European Union, the warning of an acceleration of the phenomenon was raised, but, until today, no measures were adopted in order to diminish the exodus. Between 2007 and 2010, 8131 medical doctors leaved the country. With some of the poorest health ...

Brain drain or brain gain? Technology diffusion and learning on-the-job

This paper develops a theory of technology transfer when technology is embodied in human capital and learning requires on-the-job communication between managers and workers. Patterns of knowledge diffusion depend on where high knowledge managers work and how much time they allocate to training workers. Managers appropriate the surplus training creates and in the open economy managers face a cro...

Brain drain and brain gain: the challenges of internationalisation Brain Drain: Fact or Fiction?

Does Brain Drain Lead to Institutional Gain

This paper presents a cross country empirical investigation of impacts of skilled labor emigration on sending country’s institutional development. Based on Albert Hirschman’s “Exit and Voice” model, we analyze different channels through which emigration can affect institutions; using Djankov et al.’s “Institutional Possibility Frontier” framework, we assess emigration’s heterogeneous effects on...