The brain drain: winners and losers. Socio-economic effects of highly skilled migrations on both sending and host countries

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of the most important theories on „brain drain” socio-economic effects both on sending and host countries. Therefore, all the main results of the analysis of three generations of Authors will be examined. So, this study will allow to understand which countries should have benefits from highly skilled migrations.

Keywords

• Brain drain
• migration
• socio-economic effects
• welfare
• education level
• labour market