title: To return or not to return? Politics vs. economics in China's brain drain.
abstract: "This study, based on 273 face-to-face interviews with students, scholars, and former residents of China in the United States in 1993, uses both qualitative and quantitative methods to explain people's views about returning to China. Although less than 9 percent of interviewees had concrete plans to return, over 32 percent were positively disposed to returning in the future. Key background variables that affect that decision are people's age, sex, social background in China, and their views about returning when they first left China. Concern about children's future was not significant, but having a wife abroad greatly increased the desire to stay abroad. Why people chose not to return varied significantly between people [who had] children and those who didn't."
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authors.lastname: Zweig
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D000569:Americas; D001208:Asia; D002681:China; D003710:Demography; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005202:Asia, Eastern; D009656:North America; D011057:Politics; D011153:Population; D011154:Population Characteristics; D011157:Population Dynamics; D012737:Sex Factors; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States
keywords: Age Factors; Americas; Asia; China; Demographic Factors; Developed Countries; Developing Countries; Eastern Asia; Economic Factors; International Migration; Migration; North America; Northern America; Political Factors; Population; Population Characteristics; Population Dynamics; Return Migration--determinants; Sex Factors; Social Class; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; United States