@techreport{Hunter2009elite,
abstract = {We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they migrate systematically towards nations with large R&D spending. Our study cannot adjudicate on whether migration improves scientists' productivity, but we find that movers and stayers have identical h-index citations scores. Immigrants in the UK and US now win Nobel Prizes proportionately less often than earlier. US residents' h-indexes are relatively high. We describe a framework where a key role is played by low mobility costs in the modern world.},
address = {Bonn},
author = {Rosalind S. Hunter and Andrew J. Oswald and Bruce G. Charlton},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {O3; J6; 330; Mobility; science; brain drain; citations; Brain Drain; Wissenschaftler; Standortwettbewerb; Publikationsanalyse; Hochschule},
language = {eng},
note = {urn:nbn:de:101:1-20090304334},
number = {4005},
publisher = {IZA},
title = {The elite brain drain},
type = {IZA discussion papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/35595},
year = {2009}
}
