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Models Proposed by Economists to Analyse the Migration of Skilled Labours from Developing countries like India
by Deepti Gupta and Renu Tyagi

Abstract:
The study aims to review the models proposed by various economists to analyse the skilled labour migration from developing countries with special reference to India. In this paper models like brain drain model and those that critiques the brain drain model is presented. It was analysed in this study that remittances are not the only benefits but knowledge, experience and the direct impacts on the enhancement of education and research in the source country are major sources of gain. So, skilled labour migration which was previously considered to be a brain drain is actually working as brain exchange and brain circulation.

Keywords: skilled labour migration, brain drain, labour mobility, Indian diaspora, remittances

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