"one productivity-enhancing effect of high immigration is that you get greater human capital on the cheap by pinching it from other (mainly poor) countries."https://www.smh.com.au/business/immigration-the-cheap-and-nasty-way-to-grow-the-economy-20180318-h0xmf0.html?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nc&eid=socialn%3Atwi-13omn1677-edtrl-other%3Annn-17%2F02%2F2014-edtrs_socialshare-all-nnn-nnn-vars-o%26sa%3DD%26usg%3DALhdy28zsr6qiq …
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Replying to @clairlemon
There is also an ethical question of rich countries making themselves even richer by robbing poor countries of their best and brightest.
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Replying to @lattenomics @clairlemon
naw there was a paper on this more emigration by cognitive elite associated with greater development later as these elites remit both money + knowledge
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Yes, I’d be interested in this too.
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Replying to @_TheScapegoat_ @sandylanceley and
I don't trust myself to interpret it in my present condition, but there's a thread of literature in development economics about "brain drain", eg https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304387800001334 …
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beep boop am a robot (this is the extent of my familiarity with the subsubfield, I'm not sure where a lay version might be)
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