The Brain Drain

Determinants, Measurements and Welfare Effects

By Herbert Grubel
Categories: Social Sciences, Immigration, Emigration & Transnationalism
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Paperback : 9780889200364, 180 pages, March 1977
Ebook (PDF) : 9780889207967, 180 pages, January 2006

Description

Theoretical studies of the determinants of migration by skilled persons and the output and welfare effects of such migration on the migrants and the countries of departure and destination.

The volume measures the numbers of highly skilled migrants from different countries to the U.S. and Canada, with an analysis of policy alternatives.