%0 Report
        %A Hunter, Rosalind S.
%A Oswald, Andrew J.
%A Charlton, Bruce G.
        %T The Elite Brain Drain
        %D 2009
        %8 2009 Feb
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 4005
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp4005
        %X We collect data on the movement and productivity of elite scientists. Their mobility is remarkable: nearly half of the world's most-cited physicists work outside their country of birth. We show they migrate systematically towards nations with large R&D spending. Our study cannot adjudicate on whether migration improves scientists' productivity, but we find that movers and stayers have identical h-index citations scores. Immigrants in the UK and US now win Nobel Prizes proportionately less often than earlier. US residents' h-indexes are relatively high. We describe a framework where a key role is played by low mobility costs in the modern world.
        %K mobility
%K science
%K brain drain
%K citations