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>One (admittedly completely conjectured) explanation: Anyone motivated and healthy enough to travel to another country, where there's another language, with not

by scythe 3y ago

>One (admittedly completely conjectured) explanation: Anyone motivated and healthy enough to travel to another country, where there's another language, with nothing but their shirt, is going to be very productive. Supposing that this is true, what happens in poor countries when they selectively lose their healthiest and most productive people to emigration?

Khartoum 3y ago
The "Economics Explained" YouTube channel has a video called "Skills Wars Are The New Trade Wars", which touches on your question.
wolverine876 3y ago
Brain drain is a well-known issue. Possibly productive labor drain is also?