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Is the Medical Brain Drain Beneficial? Evidence from Overseas Doctors in the UK
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posted on 2023-06-08, 06:20 authored by Mari Kangasniemi, L. Alan WintersL. Alan Winters, Simon CommanderThe `beneficial brain drain¿ hypothesis suggests that skilled migration can be good for a sending country because the incentives it creates for obtaining training increase that country's net supply of skilled labour. Necessary conditions for this hypothesis to work are that the possibility of migration significantly affects decisions to take medical training and that migrants are not strongly screened by the host country. We conducted a survey among overseas doctors in the UK in 2002, which suggested that neither condition is likely to be fulfilled. Apart from the `beneficial brain drain¿ argument, the survey findings also cast light on the backgrounds and motives of migrant doctors, and finds evidence that there could, nonetheless, be other benefits to sending countries via routes like remittances and return migration.
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Social Science and MedicineISSN
0277-9536Publisher
ElsevierExternal DOI
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5Volume
65Page range
915-923Pages
9.0Department affiliated with
- Economics Publications
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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