Alexia Prskawetz

TL;DR: Human capital depletion and formation in an economy open to out-migration, as opposed to an economy which is closed, under the assumption of asymmetric information can give rise to a brain gain in conjunction with a brain drain.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study human capital depletion and formation in an economy open to out-migration, as opposed to an economy which is closed, under the assumption of asymmetric information, the enlarged opportunities and the associated different structure of incentives can give rise to a brain gain in conjunction with a brain drain.

TL;DR: In this article, conditions under which a strictly positive probability of employment in a foreign country raises the level of human capital formed by optimizing workers in the home country are specified, where some workers migrate, taking along more human capital than if they had migrated without factoring in the possibility of migration.

TL;DR: In this article, conditions under which a strictly positive probability of employment in a foreign country raises the level of human capital formed by optimizing workers in the home country are specified, under the assumption that the possibility of migration is assumed.

TL;DR: A cross-national comparison of macro-level time-series data from 1960 to 2000 for France, West Germany, Italy, Sweden, the UK, and the USA finds a negative and significant correlation until about the mid-1970s and an insignificant or weaker negative correlation afterwards.