title: Unemployment of the educated and emigration of post-secondary graduates from the LDCs.
abstract: The author examines the emigration of educated individuals from developing countries and reviews selected approaches to the study of international human capital flows.  Attention is then given to two policy issues:  the financing of postsecondary education and an international brain drain tax.  The following factors are identified as critical in their impact on educated worker migration: "(a) the rigidity or flexibility of the wage in the market for the services of educated labour; (b) the extent of government subsidy (explicit or implicit) of the cost of post-secondary education; (c) the extent of responsiveness of the investment in education to the private return on such investment or its being exogenously controlled by the government; and (d) the type of restrictions (if any) imposed by the receiving industrialized countries on the migration flows from the LDCs." Comments by M. Ali Khan on a previous article by Blomqvist on the subject are also included (pp. 655-6).
mesh_terms: D003710:Demography; D003906:Developing Countries; D004467:Economics; D004522:Educational Status; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D004651:Employment; D005376:Financial Management; D005380:Financing, Government; D006280:Health Workforce; D007449:Investments; D011153:Population; D011157:Population Dynamics; D011640:Public Policy; D012456:Salaries and Fringe Benefits; D012923:Social Class; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D013660:Taxes; D014171:Transients and Migrants
keywords: Brain Drain; Demographic Factors; Developing Countries; Economic Factors; Educational Status; Financial Activities; Financing, Government; Human Resources; International Migration; Investments; Labor Force; Macroeconomic Factors; Migrants; Migration; Migration Policy; Policy; Population; Population Dynamics; Population Policy; Social Policy; Socioeconomic Factors; Socioeconomic Status; Taxation; Wages