Does the emigration of skilled individuals necessarily result in losses for source countries due to the brain drain? Combining industry-level patenting and migration data from 32 European countries, we show that emigration in fact positively contributes to innovation in source countries. We use...

Migration can be traced from time immemorial and affect both the place people leave and the place they move and is a powerful driver of economic, political and social change. Actual migration is constrained by the individual or household capability, including the financial or social capital....

Migration can be traced from time immemorial and affects both the places people leave and the places they move into, and is a powerful driver of economic, political and social change. Actual migration is constrained by the individual or household capability, including the financial or social...