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Brain
drain - from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A
brain drain or human capital flight is an emigration of trained and talented individuals
("human capital") to other nations or jurisdictions, due to conflicts,
lack of opportunity, health hazards where they are living or other reasons.
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Brain
drain? That's so nineties
By Peter Calamai
January 12, 2008
Just
a decade ago Canadians watched what seemed like a relentless poaching of the country’s
top minds. Now the trend is being reversed thanks to the Canada Research Chairs
program. Even so, the lauded program is not without its critics.
Source:
The
Toronto Star
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From
Statistics Canada :
March
13, 2008
Study:
Canadians living abroad, 2004
Canadian emigration abroad is just
as selective as incoming migration to Canada, according to a new report published
today in Canadian Social Trends. The report, "Canadians abroad," focuses
on emigrants who went to five countries: Australia, Italy, Poland, the United
Kingdom and the United States, using data on immigration provided by those countries.
Complete
article:
Canadians Abroad
By
Margaret Michalowski and Kelly Tran
March 13, 2008
HTML
PDF
(149K, 9 pages)
Source:
Canadian
Social Trends
[ earlier
issues of this report ]
[ more
StatCan links to Society and Community ]
January
18, 2007
Study:
International mobility: A longitudinal analysis
of the effects on individuals'
earnings, 1982 to 2003
by Ross Finnie
The study "International
mobility: A longitudinal analysis of the effects on individuals earnings"
examines the relative growth in earnings among men who left Canada during the
past two decades, spent some time out of the country working and then returned.
It was based on Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Administrative Database, which
allows the comparison of individuals' earnings before leaving compared to levels
after their return. It also allows comparisons between the earnings of individuals
who left and returned against those who did not.
Executive
summary - HTML
Complete
study (PDF file - 386K, 53 pages)
Related
study:
International
Mobility:
Patterns of Exit and Return of Canadians, 1982 to 2003
(PDF file - 365K, 61 pages)
November 2006
by Ross Finnie
June
2000
Brain
drain and brain gain:
part II, the immigration of knowledge workers to Canada
(PDF file - 78K, 14 pages)
May 2000
Brain
drain and brain gain:
part I, the emigration of knowledge workers from Canada
(PDF file - 158K, 20 pages)
Google Web Search Results
: "canada, brain drain"
Google
News search Results : "canada, brain drain"
Source:
Google.ca
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Institute
for Research on Public Policy (IRPP)
Go to the IRPP home page and do
a search on "brain drain" for dozens of links to articles about the
movement of workers to and from Canada.
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Brain
Drain, Brain Gain
Session Proceedings
PDF
version (33 pages, 169K)
[no HTML version]
May 25, 2000
Presented
by The Maytree Foundation and The St. Lawrence Centre Forum
There is an
intense media focus on the brain drain from Canada to the United States. At the
same time, Canada is experiencing a largely unrecognized brain gain of skilled
and qualified immigrants. This movement of human capital has significant implications
for Canada’s values, cultures and institutions. Yet much of the public debate
about the issue is based on misperceptions and incomplete information.
- In the interest of separating fact from fiction and encouraging informed discussion,
The Maytree Foundation sponsored a public forum on Brain Drain, Brain Gain at
the St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts in Toronto on May 25, 2000. Four expert panelists
were asked to address the following key questions:
· Is the brain
drain to the US a significant problem?
· How are other countries coping
with their brain drain?
· How can we make the best use of the talent
that comes to our country?
Source:
Maytree
Foundation (Canadian charitable foundation)
Canada's
"Brain Drain" a trickle, not a flood: New StatsCan report on immigration/emigration
shows we gain as much brain as we drain
June 7, 2000
Richard
Shillington
Source: Straight Goods
Canadian
Human Capital Transfers: The United States and Beyond
Fall 1998
(PDF file, 45 pages, 160K)
C.D Howe
Institute
Canadian
Institute for Advanced Research (CIAR)
The Canadian
Institute for Advanced Research spans a country and connects with the world to
initiate and conduct basic research in the natural and social sciences. CIAR links
some of the best Canadian and international research minds in dynamic networks
that often include unanticipated and innovative combinations of disciplines
to collaborate on large questions from fresh perspectives. It constitutes Canada's
research university without walls, creating communities of scholars from different
places and divergent fields who are working at the frontier of knowledge and generating
new insights.
Early
Years Study : The Final Report - Reversing the Real Brain Drain
PDF file - 1330K, 207 pages
April 1999
The
preparation of this report was funded by the Ontario Children’s Secretariat
Who's
right? You be the judge.
| Canadian
taxes are too high: | . | Canadian
taxes are not too high: |
Canada's Tax Regime
Drives Out "Scarce Skills,'' Nortel Networks CEO Says
Need to
plug brain drain highlighted at annual shareholders' meeting
April
29, 1999
Canada Newswire
"Tax makes all the difference.''
Brain drain will ruin Canada: Nortel boss: 'Wealth
producers are leaving'
Karyn Standen
The
Ottawa Citizen
November 13, 1999
"... the "U.S. dollar's
worth 47 per cent more than the Canadian dollar. Then the top marginal tax rate
in the United States just moved from $283,000 to $285,000. Canada's top rate starts
at $65,000 Canadian, or $42,000 U.S. So in Canada, you are wealthy at $42,000
U.S. In America, you're wealthy at $285,000 U.S." | . | Tax
surprise: Most of us pay less than Americans
In
Canada, it's only the better off who fork out more
By Rosemary
Speirs
Feature writer
November 6, 1999
Toronto
Star
"Statistics Canada took a look at what Canadians and Americans
have left in their pockets in a 1998 study. (...) Roughly half of Canadian families
had disposable incomes in 1995 that gave them higher purchasing power than otherwise
comparable U.S. families.'' Behind
the Brain Drain hype
February 13, 1998
Canadian
Centre for Policy Alternatives
"Most university-educated people moving
to the U.S. are leaving (Canada) either because they cannot find work in their
chosen fields, or because they can earn more money in the U.S. In the latter case,
higher remuneration in the U.S. is generally more significant than lower personal
taxes. The reality is the private sector and universities in the U.S. are prepared
to pay, for some professionals, much more than their counterparts in Canada. The
debate about taxes is, for the most part, irrelevant." |
| .. |
The Canadian Standard of Living:
Is There a Way Up?
Pierre Fortin
C.D
Howe Institute
1999 Benefactors Lecture
October 19, 1999
"Monetary, tax, and innovation policy key to raising Canadian living standards,
says C.D. Howe study
Canadians are underemployed, overtaxed, and
underproductive, says Pierre Fortin, one of Canada's foremost economists, in the
C.D. Howe Institute's annual Benefactors Lecture, delivered in Montreal today.
Fortin urges a three-pronged strategy to close the gap between Canadian and US
living standards and ensure Canadian prosperity in the future." (Excerpt from
the news release)
Full
report (PDF file, 525K)
IRPP Policy Options -
September 1999
- includes a number of articles examining both positions
on the brain drain issue.
Canadian Human Capital
Transfers: The United States and Beyond
Fall 1998
(PDF file, 45 pages, 160K)
C.D Howe Institute | . | The
"crisis" of high taxes is a phony crisis
Murray Dobbin
Canadian Centre for
Policy Alternatives Ten
Tax Myths (PDF file, 238K)
October 1999 "Which
Canadians are overtaxed? All, or just some? Overtaxed compared to what and whom?
Other countries? Does it mean we are overtaxed compared to what we get for our
taxes? Compared to what we used to pay in taxes? Overtaxed in relation to the
revenue we need for good public services? Or might it mean, if we actually examine
the situation, that low-income Canadians are overtaxed compared to wealthy Canadians
and large corporations? This deceptively simple statement that we are overtaxed
is designed to make people jump to the simple answer: lower "our" taxes. Such
a solution ignores all the above questions about public services, tax fairness,
and the overall objectives of a tax system." (Ten
Tax Myths) |
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