By: The world has summarily discarded vast systems of restrictions on the labor mobility of medieval serfs, slaves, women, South African blacks, indigenous Australians, and a long list of others. – Mike Linksvayer

Wed, 02 May 2012 23:25:49 +0000

[...] good for them!) makes me sad, but gladly the literature does not offer support for the effect, as I suspected. There’s a passing mention in the paper, and a bit more in the interview, concerning [...]

By: Mike Linksvayer » Beneficial brain drain enhanced by weak intellectual protectionism

Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:39:48 +0000

[...] Modern research on “brain drain” indicates it is mostly beneficial, which comports with my intuition, repeated here: Over the long term I’d bet brains are not zero sum — a brain drain really just means increased returns to education. Mobility means more people in the developing world will pursue higher education. Add to that increased flow of knowledge and capital to the developing world from migrants and concern over “brain drain” sounds very much like yet another disingenuous excuse for keeping the current system of inter-jurisdiction apartheid in place. [...]

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By: The world has summarily discarded vast systems of restrictions on the labor mobility of medieval serfs, slaves, women, South African blacks, indigenous Australians, and a long list of others. – Mike Linksvayer

By: Mike Linksvayer » Beneficial brain drain enhanced by weak intellectual protectionism