CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2025
| Author | Krasnokutskaia, Aleksandra |
|---|---|
| Title | Talent on the Run: Global Innovation Impacts of Brain Drain |
| Summary | As international migration continues to grow and change receiving and sending countries, its understudied effects on the sending countries have become increasingly relevant. The longstanding brain drain versus brain gain debate remains unresolved, largely due to fragmented, industry-specific or country-specific studies that dominate the existing literature. I aim to contribute to the debate and investigate the global impact of emigration on innovation, using the number of resident patent applications per million as a proxy for innovation. To investigate this relationship, I develop a panel OLS model with country fixed effects that accounts for various important predictors of innovation and investigate the difference in this relationship across various regions and income groups. The results are mixed and indicate heterogeneity in the relationship between emigration and innovation across contexts. The relationship is not uniform, suggesting that regional or structural differences play an important role. These findings contribute to a more comprehensive understanding of how the emigration influences global innovation trends. |
| Supervisor | Kahanec, Martin |
| Department | Network Science MSc |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2025/krasnokutskaia_alexa.pdf |
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