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Brain Drain: A Management or a Property Problem?
Author(s) -
Glăvan Bogdan
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.2008.00575.x
Subject(s) - brain drain , human capital , confusion , investment (military) , capital (architecture) , economics , phenomenon , intervention (counseling) , property (philosophy) , market economy , business , monetary economics , labour economics , political science , law , psychology , philosophy , physics , archaeology , epistemology , quantum mechanics , psychiatry , politics , psychoanalysis , history
A bstract . Brain drain occurs when skilled individuals leave their native countries. It is often argued that this phenomenon has strong negative effects on the countries of origin, preventing them from capitalizing on their investment in human capital formation and thus realizing a higher growth. This analysis shows that the negative consequences of brain drain have been overemphasized, mainly because of the confusion between capital and technology. It demonstrates that investments in human capital are possible and profitable in a free market. State intervention in education is responsible for the systematic misallocation of human capital in general, and for brain drain in particular.