Brain Drain
Name: Robert Pinard Student #: A00069447 Class: Econ 3340.2 B Professor: B. Soper Date: 6/4/06
Question/ Problem Definition
Dose Brain Drain threatens to hurt Canadian economic prospects and competitiveness?
The topic will deal with the problem of Brain Drain in The Canadian environment, how worker mobility and the Migration of skilled workers had affected the Canadian economy. Essentially the paper will outline and analysis the extent to which the movement of skilled workers causes harm to the Canadian and will show how the pattern of this movement has changed over the years.
Worker mobility can be defined as the transfer or movement of workers from on location to another Brain Drain can be defined as the movement of highly skilled workers usually in the (Medical, Engineering, Information Technology and Business) out side there geographic area, for example the movement of workers from Canada to the United States. This trend has not been uncommon over the past years but now the very serious question is on how this trend is starting to impact growth and economic livelihood in countries like Canada. Dose a higher rate or worker mobility mean less prosperity for that particular country and what are the repercussions facing this outflow people on the competitiveness of an economy. The paper will essentially look at how the Drain Brain affects economic prospects and competitiveness, by economic prospects I mean the effect that Brain Drain on the Human Capital and development of new businesses and the increase in skilled workers in Canada. In term of competitiveness I mean the degree to which Canada is able to compete with the US in terms of development and growth of the country, the question has to be asked : dose the ; loss of highly educated people put Canada at a disadvantage.
Question/ Problem Definition
Dose Brain Drain threatens to hurt Canadian economic prospects and competitiveness?
The topic will deal with the problem of Brain Drain in The Canadian environment, how worker mobility and the Migration of skilled workers had affected the Canadian economy. Essentially the paper will outline and analysis the extent to which the movement of skilled workers causes harm to the Canadian and will show how the pattern of this movement has changed over the years.
Worker mobility can be defined as the transfer or movement of workers from on location to another Brain Drain can be defined as the movement of highly skilled workers usually in the (Medical, Engineering, Information Technology and Business) out side there geographic area, for example the movement of workers from Canada to the United States. This trend has not been uncommon over the past years but now the very serious question is on how this trend is starting to impact growth and economic livelihood in countries like Canada. Dose a higher rate or worker mobility mean less prosperity for that particular country and what are the repercussions facing this outflow people on the competitiveness of an economy. The paper will essentially look at how the Drain Brain affects economic prospects and competitiveness, by economic prospects I mean the effect that Brain Drain on the Human Capital and development of new businesses and the increase in skilled workers in Canada. In term of competitiveness I mean the degree to which Canada is able to compete with the US in terms of development and growth of the country, the question has to be asked : dose the ; loss of highly educated people put Canada at a disadvantage.
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