Is the medical brain drain beneficial? Evidence from overseas doctors in the UK
Is the medical brain drain beneficial? Evidence from overseas doctors in the UK
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DOI：
10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.04.021
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发表时间：
2007-09-01
影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Commander, Simon
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作者：
Kangasniemi, Marl;Winters, L. Alan;Commander, Simon
“有益的人才外流”假设表明，技术移民对输出国可能是有益的，因为它为获得培训创造的激励增加了该国技术劳动力的净供应。这一假设成立的必要条件是，移徙的可能性对接受医疗培训的决定有很大影响，而且东道国对移徙者没有严格的筛选。2002年，我们在英国的海外医生中进行了一项调查，结果表明，这两个条件都不太可能满足。除了“有益的人才外流”的论点外，调查结果还揭示了移民医生的背景和动机，并发现证据表明，尽管如此，通过汇款和回国移民等途径向输出国提供其他好处。(c)2007爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
The '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. (c) 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.