Brain drain and compulsory service programs

BRAIN DRAIN, TALENT Brain Drain, Talent Mobility and Academic Networking

Brain Drain and Brain Waste

When skilled workers migrate, they face the brain waste risk, i.e., they can end up employed as unskilled. We analyze the effects of brain waste on brain drain, resulting from low international transferability of skills. We show that this type of brain waste: (1) reduces education incentives; (2) weakens the chances for a positive self-selection; and (3) decreases the possibility of a brain gai...

Brain drain

Professor Emeritus, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, UK, [email protected] In this issue, three papers discuss the issue of the brain drain: of psychiatrists from Egypt and Nigeria, and of nurses from East Africa. They explore the complexities of professional migration and its impact on the health of populations in source and recipient countries; they a...

Service availability, compulsion, and compulsory hospitalisation

* Correspondence: [email protected] Legislation sometimes leads to social change, but more often it formalises evolutions in existing community views. China’s draft Mental Health Act appears to have both elements. While the draft Act (the Act) has a significant emphasis on patients’ rights, it also aims to improve and increase services for people who are mentally unwell in China.

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