Brain Drain: Causes and Effects

Amartya Sen
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Amartya Sen: University of Delhi

Chapter 15 in Science and Technology in Economic Growth, 1973, pp 385-415 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract When in A.D. 1600 the question was asked in Oxford University’s Arts Seminar: ‘An peregrinatio conducat ad philosophandum?’ (‘Does migration stimulate philosophical thinking?’), the precaution was taken of requiring the students to answer the question in the affirmative.2 The problem of ‘brain drain’ has not been viewed in quite such unequivocal terms in the recent literature on economic development. This is not surprising since a systematic migration of a large part of the skilled and technologically sophisticated labour force from an under-developed country would indeed pose a serious challenge to the economic, technological and scientific development of such a country.

Keywords: Production Function; Skilled Labour; Brain Drain; Unskilled Labour; Interpersonal Comparison (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1973
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-01731-7_15

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