Brain Drain and Brain Gain in Italy and Ireland in the Age of Mass Migration

Matteo Gomellini and Cormac Ó Gráda

Chapter Chapter 6 in Globalization and the Rise of Mass Education, 2019, pp 163-191 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Emigrants from Italy and Ireland contributed disproportionately to the age of mass migration. That their departure improved the living standards of those they left behind is hardly in doubt. Nevertheless, a voluminous literature on the selectivity of migrant flows—from both sending and receiving country perspectives—has given rise to claims that migration generates both “brain drains” and “brain gains.” On the one hand, positive or negative selection among emigrants may affect the level of human capital in sending countries. On the other hand, the prospect of emigration and return migration may both spur investment in schooling in source countries. This essay describes the history of emigration from Italy and Ireland during the age of mass migration from these perspectives.

Keywords: Migration; Brain drain; Brain gain; Human capital; Italy; Ireland; F22; J61; F22; J61; N33; O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-25417-9_6

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