TY  - RPRT
        AU  - McAusland, Carol
AU  - Kuhn, Peter J.
        TI  - Bidding for Brains: Intellectual Property Rights and the International Migration of Knowledge Workers
        PY  - 2010/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 4936
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp4936
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - international labor migration
KW  - brain drain
KW  - development
KW  - intellectual property rights
        ER  -