TY  - BOOK
AU  - Romero,J.Gabriel
TI  - What circumstances lead a government to promote brain drain?
SN  - 09318658
AV  - HB171.5 JOU 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Heidelberg
PB  - Springer
KW  - Assimilation process
KW  - Brain drain
KW  - Migration pattern
N2  - This paper aims to complement the existing theoretical brain drain literature, focusing on the interaction between education, skilled emigration and government intervention in a small open economy. This article first characterises different emigration patterns that may arise in equilibrium, then seeks the conditions that lead a government to promote brain-drain. The model shows that the government may promote skilled emigration among workers with intermediate skills even though the resulting brain drain decreases per capita income. Emigrants remittances outweigh the income they would produce if they did not emigrate. Therefore, the government makes less severe the fall in per capita income that follows the brain drain by encouraging emigration among those skilled workers who are more productive abroad
UR  - 10.1007/s00712-012-0272-x
ER  -