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Brain Drain and the Academic and the Intellectual Labour Market in South East Europe

2004

As author of this paper, I need to acknowledge the readers that a publication of a shorter version of this article will be included in the UNESCO-CEPES Quarterly, HEE vol. 23 3 2004, ISSN 0379-7724 published by CARFAX. Also, the results of the conference “Brain Drain and the Academic and the Intellectual Labour Market in South East Europe” will be included subsequently in a book in the Unesco Studies in Higher Education series. This electronic format is limited distributed to the persons that helped me developing this study and no external circulation or publication is allowed. Quotations or references to this paper need to mention the UNESCOCEPES Quarterly Journal. For reasons due to the writing up limits and requirements, the information gathered was sometimes differently managed as from what was previously planned. Hope, though, this piece of work finds positive responses from its readers. I am sincerely very grateful to the great people that trusted me enough to share part of th...

Brain Drain: Are We Losing Our Minds? A Study on the Romanian Human Capital F(L)Ight

On-line Journal Modelling the New Europe

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Issues Related to Brain Drain Phenomenon in Romania: Causes, Tendencies and Possible Solutions

International Journal of Economic Practices and Theories, 2013

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2017

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2013

The international migration of the highly skilled from Romania represents a human capital loss, especially in critical sectors such as education and health, and a threat to its economic development. In this paper we provide a quantitative assessment of the dimensions, characteristics, and implications of the emigration of skilled workers from Romania. The present work draws on a new database of 1514 Romanian immigrants from 52 destination countries, resulting from our 2010 online survey.

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China CEE Institute Weekly Briefing, 2019

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2020

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