Diskussionen um die Abwanderung türkischer Bildungsinländer aus Deutschland in die Türkei gewinnen in der Forschung, Politik und in den Medien zunehmend an Bedeutung und haben jüngst eine Kontroverse über ein mögliches "Brain Drain" ausgelöst (vgl. Jacobsen 2009, Flocke 2008). Neben...

More than three million individuals who were born in Germany lived in another OECD country in 2010/11. To assess the potential that this group represents for the German labour market, this review establishes the distribution of German emigrants over OECD countries, as well as their age, sex, and...

We develop a model of directed technological change, frictional unemployment and migration to examine the effects of a change in skill endowments on wages, employment rates and emigration rates of skilled and unskilled workers. We find that, depending on the elasticity of substitution between...

This paper critiques the last decade of research on the effects of high-skill emigration from developing countries, and proposes six new directions for fruitful research. The study singles out a core assumption underlying much of the recent literature, calling it the Lump of Learning model of...