The "brain drain" as a global phenomenon and its characteristics in Russia

Russian Education and Society

Volumn 42, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 18-34

  Ushkalov, I G ^a   Malakha, I A ^a  

^a RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

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EID: 0034560224     PISSN: 10609393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2753/RES1060-9393421218     Document Type: Article

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2. Traditionally, what is meant by the "brain drain" (intellectual emigration) is the exodus of scientific and other creative intelligentsia from a country, the people who create and are the basic carriers of spiritual, cultural, scientific, and other intellectual values - which is to say, the elite of society, the people who, to a considerable extent, determine its cultural, scientific-technical, and socioeconomic progress, its contribution to world civilization. In addition, it necessarily entails the cessation of labor activity in the donor country (for a rather lengthy period).
3. Izvestiia, 29 July 1997.
4. See Recent Changes in the Internal and External Migration of Population in Russia and Their Economic Significance [Noveishie izmeneniia vo vnutrennei i vneshnei migratsii naseleniia v Rossii i ikh ekono-micheskoe znachenie]. Moscow and St. Petersburg, 1994, p. 49.
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14. The survey showed that at least 25 percent of the graduates have the intention to emigrate, and in a number of institutions of higher learning specializing in physics and technical subjects this percentage stands at more than half. See Ushkalov, I.G., "The 'Brain Drain' and the Social and Economic Problems of Russian Science" ["Utechka umov" i sotsial'no-ekonomicheskie problemy rossiiskoi nauki]. Vestnik Rossiiskogo gumanitarnogo nauchogo fonda, 1996, no. 2, p. 73.
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16. Ibid., p. 21.
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