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The international migration of knowledge workers : when is brain drain beneficial ?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Kuhn, Peter McAusland, Carol |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | The International Migration of Knowledge Workers: When Is Brain Drain Beneficial? 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. JEL Classification: F22, J61 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/33685/1/540316725.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ftp.iza.org/dp2493.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://econ.ucsb.edu/~pjkuhn/Research%20Papers/KnowledgeWorkers.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Brain Neoplasms Bucket-brigade device Drain - SpecimenType Drain device Inosine Pranobex Intellectual Property Rights InterPro Taste Perception |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
