Is the brain drain a curse or a boon for developing countries? This paper reviews what is
known to date about the magnitude of the brain drain from developing to developed …

Cities in a World Economy, Fifth Edition examines the emergence of global cities as a new
social formation. As sites of rapid and widespread developments in the areas of finance …

From 2003 to 2005 I was working in Melbourne, Australia, teaching academic English and
university preparation courses to international students at various private and university …

For the last few years, the pace of international migration has accelerated. According to the
United Nations (2002), the number of international migrants increased from 154 million to …

Recent theoretical research deals with economic costs and benefits of cultural diversity
related to immigration. However, empirical evidence regarding the impact of cultural …

Until recently, there has been no systematic empirical assessment of the economic impact of
the brain drain. Despite many case studies and anecdotal evidence, the main reason for this …

Despite its open and lenient policies for highly skilled migration, Japan has not been
successful in attracting many professionals from overseas. Japanese corporations have also …

Human development plays a profound role in achieving sustainable development, by
utilizing the power of well-educated blue-and white-collar laborers, academics, politicians …

Europe has always been a crossroads of cultures and an intersection of countless
immigration trajectories. In the postwar period, especially since the 1960s, immigration from …

The world faces the continuously increasing issue of a lack of skilled employees, staff
migration, and turnover. It is strengthened by unexpected situations such as wars …