Brain Drain/Auszug des Geistes/ Exode des Cerveaux A Selected Biblio
In 1967 S. Dedijer and L. Svennigson published their famous bibliography Brain Drain and Brain Gain, (Lund, 1968, index of authors, countries and regions). It contained 415 items from 40 countries and appeared at a time when the debate about the ad vanta
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EUROPEAN DEMOGRAPHIC MONOGRAPHS III
Brain Drain/ AuszuB des Geistes/ Exode des Cerveaux A SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT MIGRATION OF SKILLED WORKERS AND HIGH-LEVEL MANPOWER, 1967 -1972
by
G. BEYER
MARTINUS NIJHOFF / THE HAGUE / 1972
® 1972 by Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands All rights reserved, including the right to translate or to reproduce this book or parts thereof in any form
ISBN-13: 978-90-247-1453-7 001: 10.1007/978-94-010-2845-5
e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-2845-5
Table of contents Introduction
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Chapter 1 Authors 001-261
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Chapter 2 Articles in periodicals, papers, pamphlets 262-372
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Indexes
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INTRODUCTION
In 1967 S. Dedijer and L. Svennigson published their famous bibliography Brain Drain and Brain Gain, (Lund, 1968, index of authors, countries and regions). It contained 415 items from 40 countries and appeared at a time when the debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the brain drain was at its most intense. But the brain drain is still not a thing of the past - certainly not for Europe. The European countries and those of the rest of the world are in different stages of transition. Industrialization has generally been associated, on the one hand with ever more rapid forms of transportation and other forms of communication, a long-range rise in the per capita income, the exodus from the countryside to the cities and an enormous urbanization process, and the demand for improved social and economic security, on the other. But these characteristics tend to be more relative than absolute. It is not possible to make a distinct division between developed nations, and countries in various stages of development. All countries are constantly undergoing change and are in transition with respect to development. The constant migration of skilled workers and especially the search for better training and working conditions on the part of academically trained people is inseparable from this process of transition - i.e. from the phenomenon of long-range. permanent change. Fortunately this is not as deplorable as some observers would make it appear to be. Migration results in most cases from a real sense of uneasiness about the lack of opportunity in the homeland and the absence of suitable rewards rather than merely from a sense of materialism among professional men and women. But undoubtedly such migration can create a serious maldistribution of skilled workers and high-level human resources throughout the world especially since such large numbers move from less developed regions to societies of greater affluence. Though many recent studies also point out that it can never be expected that people stay where there is a need if there is no
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demand. Only the cooperative efforts of national and international professional and political bodies, advances in knowledge and the combined experience and wisdom of individual scientists and social scientists can contribute toward deriving beneficial results for all mankind from the current movements of highly qua
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