Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/140844 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
CMR Working Papers No. 61/119
Publisher: 
University of Warsaw, Centre of Migration Research (CMR), Warsaw
Abstract (Translated): 
This paper presents theoretical background for studying consequences of highly-skilled migration for individual and aggregated human capital. Contrary to the brain drain discussion, which stresses the loss for the sending countries resulting from the outflow of specialists abroad, the paper focuses on the positive impacts of migration on the countries of origin. These could be a result of acquisition of new competences (resulting in higher salaries after return), of human capital stimulation in the sending country (of both migrants and non-migrants) or of remittances sent to the country of origin. Decreased costs of highly-skilled migration due to the automatic recognition of qualifications in selected professions in the European Union (e.g. for healthcare professionals) could result in increased temporality of migration. Temporality and circularity of migration together with lack of mass migration and high transferability of experience and skills between the countries could further result in brain gain for the sending countries.
Subjects: 
brain drain
brain gain
human capital
healthcare professionals
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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