Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20720 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1422
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We provide a first empirical attempt at understanding the scale and type of skilled migration from the Indian software sector and the consequences for firms experiencing loss of skilled workers. The paper draws on some unique survey evidence of software firms in India. The results are not generally consistent with an adverse or brain drain story but provide a more nuanced interpretation. Not only has skilled migration taken a variety of firms – including significant temporary migration – but the evidence suggests that the impact of mobility on performance in the sending firms has not been unambiguously adverse. There is some evidence of associated wage pressure at the height of the software boom in the late 1990s. But there is also evidence of a strong supply side response as workers acquired training and entered the sector.
Subjects: 
skilled migration
software
brain drain
JEL: 
J31
J61
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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