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T1 Spatial Mobility in Elite Academic Institutions in Economics : the Case of Spain
A1 Carrasco, Raquel
A1 Ruiz-Castillo, Javier
A2 Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Economía, 
AB Using a dataset of 3,540 economists working in 2007 in 125 of the best academic centers in 22 countries,this paper presents some evidence on spatial mobility patterns in Spain and other countries conditional onsome personal, department, and country characteristics. There are productivity and other reasons fordesigning a scientific policy with the aims of attracting foreign talent (brain gain), minimizing the elite braindrain, and recovering nationals who have earned a Ph.D. or have spent some time abroad (brain circulation).Our main result is that Spain has more brain gain, more brain circulation and less brain drain thancomparable large, continental European countries, i.e. Germany, France, and Italy, where economists havesimilar opportunities for publishing their research in English or in their own languages. We suggest thatthese results can be mostly explained by the governance changes introduced in a number of Spanishinstitutions in 1975-1990 by a sizable contingent of Spanish economists coming back home after attendinggraduate school abroad. These initiatives were also favored by the availability of resources to finance certainresearch related activities, including international Ph.D. programs.
SN 2340-5031
YR 2018
FD 2018-02-01
YR 2018
FD 2018-04-23
YR 2019
FD 2019-02-07
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10016/26093
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10016/26093
LA eng
NO This is the fourth version of a Working Paper in this series with the title“Governance, brain drain, and brain gain in elite academic institutions in economics. The case ofSpain”, published in December 2017. Carrasco and Ruiz-Castillo acknowledge financial support fromthe Spanish MEC (Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad) through grants No. ECO2015-65204-P andECO2014-55953-P, respectively, as well as grants MDM 2014-0431 from the MEC, and MadEco-CM(S2015/HUM-3444) from the Comunidad Autónoma de Madrid to their economics department.
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