CO SCI 136 Lecture 37:
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= emigration of a nation"s most highly skilled individuals, from developing to developed but also from rural areas or selected high-income countries. Skilled migration constitutes a disproportionately high share of total migration. The majority of skilled migrants come from a variety of professions, with computer specialists, accountants, managers, and, among higher education levels, scientists and academics being the most common. Much of the popular discussion and debate about brain drain concerns the migration of doctors and nurses, but, while medical professionals are indeed among the most common occupations, they ac- count for only 12 15 percent of educated immigrants (us). Health professionals are also the minority of tertiary-educated immigrants in other countries. More- over, they appear to have lower emigration rates on average than other skilled professionals. The skilled brain drain rate exceeds the medical brain drain rate for 69 percent of the countries.
