From Brain Drain to Mutua Gain Sharing the Benefits of High-Skill Migration

摘要

A global economy built on policies that foster mutual gain would be both richer and fairer than one premised on a war for talent. The news on high-skill migration (HSM) is good and getting better. More highly skilled people are moving across borders for education and work than ever before. Judging by figures on graduate-school applications from abroad that were released in March 2006 by the Council of Graduate Schools, the United States is recovering from its overre-action in the wake of the September 11,2001, terrorist attacks and reestablishing its position as the most desirable destination for the world's talented and restless. HSM benefits the migrants themselves, the knowledge-producing community, and the global economy as a whole. Managed wisely, HSM might also benefit many of the countries in the developing world that traditionally have been thought to be hurt by it.