@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp4936,
            	author={McAusland, Carol and Kuhn, Peter J.},
            	title={Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers},
            	year={2010},
	month={May},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={4936},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4936},
	abstract={We introduce international mobility of knowledge workers into a model of Nash equilibrium IPR policy choice among countries. We show that governments have incentives to use IPRs in a bidding war for global talent, resulting in Nash equilibrium IPRs that can be too high, rather than too low, from a global welfare perspective. These incentives become stronger as developing countries grow in size and wealth, thus allowing them to prevent the 'poaching' of their 'brains' by larger, wealthier markets.},
	keywords={international labor migration;brain drain;development;intellectual property rights},
            }