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Latova, Natalia V.; Savinkov, Vladimir I. – European Journal of Education, 2012
The emigration of highly-qualified academics ("brain drain") is considered an essential factor in the decline of the human capital of post-Soviet Russia. However, statistics show that the scale of this phenomenon since 2000 was minor. The Russian scientists who went abroad for permanent residence or for a contract job abroad represented…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Faculty, Human Capital, Brain
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Roberts, Gerrylynn K.; Simmons, Anna E. – Annals of Science, 2009
This paper investigates the extent of overseas migration by British chemists over the period 1887-1971. Notwithstanding the "brain drain" alarms of the 1960s, overseas employment was characteristic of some 19% of British chemists' careers throughout our period, though its nature changed considerably. Our study examines the overseas…
Descriptors: Occupational Mobility, Overseas Employment, Open Universities, Foreign Countries