why positive impacts of migration are experienced in the country receiving highly skilled workers?
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The worldwide movement of highly skilled people is often seen as an exercise in accounting – one country gains “brains” that are “drained” out of another. But this is too simplistic. Many of the global gains from this kind of migration – the creation and transfer of knowledge, the emergence of a skilled and educated workforce, and the fostering of commercial ties – are shared to some extent by countries on both sides of the “equation". But what of the impacts on the major world economies at the receiving end? For these countries, globalisation and the increasing economic importance of science and technology have made skilled international migration an important – and contentious – policy issue. In the field of biotechnology, for instance, the need for rare combinations of skills – such as expert knowledge about a particular protein together with experience of a particular regulatory procedure – has led some firms to recruit in a number of countries abroad. And in the information technology sector, rapid growth in demand and the easy transferability of skills and qualifications make it worthwhile for countries on the receiving end to cast their recruitment net widely.