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Brain drain.
When organisations or countries can pay higher salaries to attract talented people from poorer countries, there's a brain drain, a loss of talent.
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These critics lament the brain drain into finance and consulting.
With high property prices, a brain drain into financial services, successive governments favouring banking over other industries, and a revolving door between finance and public administration, the parallels between Jersey and its larger island neighbour are too obvious to ignore.
In recent years, however, Australia has begun to turn a brain drain into a brain gain.
And some attempts have been made recently to turn the brain drain into a gain.
These highly skilled emigrants are now increasingly transforming the brain drain into "brain circulation" by returning home to establish business relationships or start new companies while maintaining their social and professional ties to the US," she writes [PDF].
After the initial training phase, there is a brain drain into non-academic settings where payment is often better and work is more compatible with family life or dual careers.
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Reverse brain drain in the sciences.
Brain Drain in Europe.
Meanwhile, a series of mediocre product changes at Twitter (such as the much-hyped but ultimately confusing Moments feature), a stagnant user base, and a massive executive brain drain have called into question whether Twitter can survive as a business.
The past studies have attempted to estimate the cost of brain drain by taking into account only the tertiary cost and disregarding the primary and secondary school investments.
A brain drain of able Luos into Kenya's civil service has dried up.
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