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A brain drain or human capital flight is an emigration of trained and talented individuals ("human capital") for other nations or jurisdictions, due to conflict, lack of opportunity and/or health hazards where they are living. It parallels the term "capital flight" which refers to financial capital which is no longer invested in the country where its owner lives and earned it. Investment in higher education is lost when the trained individual leaves, usually not to return. Also whatever social capital the individual has been a part of is reduced by their departure. Spokesmen for the Royal Society of London first coined the expression “brain drain” to describe the outflow of scientists and technologists to the United States and Canada in the early 1950s.
History
Historically, the greatest brain drains have been from rural to urban areas. In the 19th century and 20th century there were great migrations to North America from Europe, and in modern times, from developing nations to developed nations, especially after colonialism. Sometimes such drains occur between developed nations, e.g. from Canada to the United States especially in the finance, software, aerospace, healthcare and entertainment industries due to higher wages and lower taxes. Only in recent years this trend seems to be slowing and even reversing with many Canadians returning home to work.
Nazism and the United States Brain Gain
The rise of the Nazis led to a great number of European scientists (many of whom either Jewish or were opposed to Nazism) to flee to the United States. European scientists played a large role in the success of the Manhattan project. Enrico Fermi, Albert Einstein and many other European scientists worked on this scientific project which had been pioneered in Germany. During the immediate post-war period, Operation Paperclip was used to capture many German rocket engineers such as Wernher von Braun. Wernher von Braun and other German engineers used their research on the V-2 as a starting point for the US missile program. Without Wernher von Braun, the United States missile program would have never been able to make such significant progress. Many other German aerospace engineers used aerospace technology developed in Germany to design missiles and aircraft. As an example, the delta wing was first pioneered on the Messerschmidt Komet would be used in the design of the US Space Shuttle Wing. More on [ Brain drain ]
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@laraaa16 DAPAT BRAIN DRAIN AND UNEMPLOYMENT :(
fsquaredfrncnM (francine malantic) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:21:43 -0000
@laraaa16 DAPAT BRAIN DRAIN AND UNEMPLOYMENT :(
Sorry forgot to add pic of front page ... Brain drain moment !! Here it is .... http://yfrog.com/71wh5j
banerji1 (ria banerji) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:48:58 -0000
Sorry forgot to add pic of front page ... Brain drain moment !! Here it is .... http://yfrog.com/71wh5j
@shandreen Brain drain - You alright lovely?
TheDingle (Andy Dingle) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:10:38 -0000
@shandreen Brain drain - You alright lovely?
off for the day...today feels like an SSR kinda day. P/T conferences drain the brain (specially when you use them to write 10 pages LOL)
Buckeye_BethM (Beth Morrow) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 11:18:22 -0000
off for the day...today feels like an SSR kinda day. P/T conferences drain the brain (specially when you use them to write 10 pages LOL)
listenin' to the nightwinds blowin',sounds like a catfight,need some relief from all this heartache and pain,time for a pill,drain the brain
TtownBluesGuy (Ray Kinney) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:55:39 -0000
listenin' to the nightwinds blowin',sounds like a catfight,need some relief from all this heartache and pain,time for a pill,drain the brain
hey folks.. woke up with a wicked middle ear infection. dam.. wonder how destroyed my brain is??I needed my ear to drain. Now Im better.
Violettstar (Violett Rose) Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:38:39 -0000
hey folks.. woke up with a wicked middle ear infection. dam.. wonder how destroyed my brain is??I needed my ear to drain. Now Im better.
a trickle not a flood - StatsCan report on immigration/emigration shows we gain as much brain as we drain. Article by statistician and social policy analyist Richard Shillington.
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Are We Losing Our Best and Brightest to the U.S.? - Spring 2000 article from Isuma magazine prepared by officials at Human Resources and Development Canada.
Brain Drain - Links to Canadian resources on the issue.
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Brain drain and brain gain - Report from Statistics Canada issued in spring of 2000. The full report is downloadable as a PDF file.
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Brain Drain, Brain Gain - There is an intense media focus on the brain drain from Canada to the US. Yet, Canada is experiencing a largely unrecognized brain gain of skilled and qualified immigrants. Documents from a conference sponsored by The Maytree Foundation and the St. Lawrence Centre Forum and held in Toronto in May 2000
cric.ca - Brain Drain - Synopsis and links to resources on the issue.
High Canadian Taxes and the Brain Drain - Links to various articles on the issue of brain drain and high taxes.
Trends in Canada-US Migration: Where's the Flood? - Report from the Bank of Montreal Economics Department.
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