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Comments on: Brain drain: Why looking at only emigration doesn’t make sense http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/10/22/brain-drain-why-looking-at-only-emigration-doesnt-make-since/ The Visible Hand in Economics Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:31:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/10/22/brain-drain-why-looking-at-only-emigration-doesnt-make-since/#comment-3089 Sun, 16 Nov 2008 23:31:38 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=1678#comment-3089 “For a lot of people the problem is a need for retraining or upskilling and there is a large degree of “learned helplessness” to overcome. I would like to see governments put effort into helping these sort of people.”

Government can help by making the market for this type of upskilling available, and then giving people the choice to do it or not methinks.

]]> By: John http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/10/22/brain-drain-why-looking-at-only-emigration-doesnt-make-since/#comment-3088 Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:07:09 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=1678#comment-3088 For a lot of people the problem is a need for retraining or upskilling and there is a large degree of “learned helplessness” to overcome. I would like to see governments put effort into helping these sort of people.

]]> By: Matt Nolan http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/10/22/brain-drain-why-looking-at-only-emigration-doesnt-make-since/#comment-3087 Mon, 27 Oct 2008 21:55:30 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=1678#comment-3087 “I think our Government could have a bias towards immigration over training up the existing population”

It isn’t up to the government to “train” a set of skills – it is about providing an environment where people can make decisions on what sort of skills to train in, with the wage providing an incentive for people to train in different things.

Labour is heterogeneous, people from different countries are good at different things. If we let labour move freely, then people will (eventually) move to where they are most “productive” (in a happiness sense) – surely this is the ultimate goal of policy.

As long as New Zealanders can move overseas for jobs, there is no “training” issue – either we have a “shortage” of skilled labour or we have a “surplus” (both relative to some random target). Currently people want to act that we have both (we need to train domestic skills – we must not let people in) – it is inconsistent

]]> By: John http://www.tvhe.co.nz/2008/10/22/brain-drain-why-looking-at-only-emigration-doesnt-make-since/#comment-3086 Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:01:58 +0000 http://tvhe.wordpress.com/?p=1678#comment-3086 “This implies that allowing highly educated immigrants into the US discourages US citizens from pursuing education.”

That is from the comments section of the second link. I think our Government could have a bias towards immigration over training up the existing population.

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