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What does it mean for a country to "strive to improve"? Do you expect a country to flourish when you siphon off the educated? People won't return until the cou
by karpierz 5y ago
What does it mean for a country to "strive to improve"? Do you expect a country to flourish when you siphon off the educated?
People won't return until the country improves, and the country won't "strive to improve" until the educated return.
- zozbot234 5y ago> Do you expect a country to flourish when you siphon off the educated? Yes. Research shows that when more people are educated abroad (i.e. 'siphoned off') this tends to improve attitudes towards democracy and liberal values in the source country. This directly addresses one of the main factors explaining expats' attitudes towards coming back.
- karpierz 5y agoCan you cite a source here?
- zozbot234 5y agoThere's a lot of research about this and I'm not going to link it all here, you can check wiki. One example is doi:10.1016/j.jdeveco.2015.12.001 "Emigration and democracy": "Migration is an important yet neglected determinant of institutions. This paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. The authors find that emigration and human capital both increase democracy and economic freedom. ...Simulations show an impact of skilled emigration that is generally positive, significant for a few countries and for many countries once incentive effects of emigration on human capital formation are accounted for."