Tuesday, June 25, 2013
1.15 (PC Hoofthuis)
The paper addresses a phenomenon that is not new, yet for the past fifty years it was absent from the territory of the European Union. Brain drain has made its come back to the EU in the past four years completing the image of a shuttered economy not only unable to accept external human resources, but also to keep its own high-skilled employees within its borders. It needs to be emphasized that flows away is not only the applied potential of these people, but also their know-how, networks, experience. The lack of data concerning the flow of high-skilled migrants (it is estimated that from Ireland only ab 80 000 of them emigrated) makes this problem invisible for the larger public and policy makers.
The paper attempts to identify the field where the regulation concerning ‘virtual return’ of know-how, networks, experience could be proposed and the potential of enhancing this regulation so that it isn’t only applied to the citizens of the EU, but also third country nationals; both as the EU regulation as well as a regime to be exported outside of the EU borders
