End of Creative Class Migration
The best and brightest have more options than ever before. Now, companies need to go where the talent is located.
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Brain Drain
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London Brain Drain
England's capital meets the definition of brain drain, but that can be an indicator of success as opposed to a problem to be solved.
Brain Drain or ‘Outward Mobility’?
Call it whatever you like, but it's actually good for economic development. People in certain places, like the U.K. and Brazil, understand this.
Demographic Deception
How mesofacts, or facts that change slowly, influence what we think about urban policy and talent migration.
People Develop, Not Places
Measuring the development of patches of Earth seems ridiculous. But that's exactly what we do. How might things differ if we measured income per natural instead of income per resident?
The Heart of Demographic Doom
Nearly a century ago, during the Great Migration, less-educated individuals were the ones who left home in search of better lives. The opposite is true today, with the educated more mobile than ever before, leaving some places in a spiral of decline.
Boston Is Dying
Don't believe a word of the brain drain hysteria. Boston is one of only two talent production industry clusters anywhere in the United States.
In Praise of Michigan Brain Drain
Talent retention is not a key driver of economic vitality. If it were, Chicago and New York City would be in a world of trouble. But that doesn't stop many from resorting to the tired brain drain refrain.
Geopolitics of Talent: United States vs. Brazil
"There are large economic gains to be realized from flows of people in both directions."
What Can’t It Do? European Austerity Policies Now Giving the World Anti-Matter, Clones
Talented natives of southern Europe that have fled their homes for opportunities elsewhere are starting to produce major breakthroughs.