Odliv mozgova kao gubitak i(li) dobitak za zemlju porekla
Brain Drain as Loss and/or Gain for the Country of Origin Home Country

Summary/Abstract: Already for many decades, brain drain is in the centre of debate of many economists as well as the impact of this phenomenon to the country of origin and inequalities among countries. Literature of 1960s and 1970s was dominated by attitudes on doubtless harm of migrations of high qualified persons for the country of origin but recently possible positive impacts were presented, like remittances, return of additional knowledge and skills obtained abroad, creation of business and trade ties. However, the problem is that majority of debates remained at theoretical level as a consequence of non-existence of evident data that would document actual effects of brain drain to various countries and in various periods of time. Emigration of highly qualified cadre is often described as a loss for the country of origin and gain for the country of destination. In reality this situation is much more complex. From the perspective of the country of origin, the loss can be decreased by reduction of unemployment rate but it yet cannot compensate the costs of education of those who left the country. However, if migrants connect enterprises in the country of origin with business capacities in the new country, both countries can benefit. On the other hand, if countries of destination do not use professional or other skills of emigrants as labor force, than migration can have negative influence on both societies. Impacts of migrations are broad and vary across economic and social sphere with significant overlapping and interaction among them.

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