The international migration of knowledge workers
Subtitle: when is brain drain beneficial?
By: Peter J. Kuhn, Carol McAusland
Contributors: McAusland, Carol; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 12761; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 12761.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "We consider the welfare effects of the emigration of workers who produce a public good (knowledge).  We distinguish between the knowledge diversion and knowledge creation effects of such emigration, and show that the remaining residents of a country can gain from emigration, even when tastes for knowledge goods exhibit a kind of 'home bias'.  In contrast to existing models of beneficial brain drain (BBD), our results do not require agglomeration economies, education-related externalities, remittances, return migration, or an emigration 'lottery'.  Instead, they are driven purely by the public nature of knowledge goods, combined with differences in market size that induce greater knowledge creation by emigrants abroad than at home.  BBD is even more likely in the presence of weak sending-country intellectual property rights (IPRs), or when source country IPR policy is endogenized"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Title from PDF file as viewed on 12/22/2006.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available in print.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.