B2 – Upper intermediate
Every year, more and more people are looking for opportunities or greener pastures outside their country and many of these individuals are highly skilled and educated. So how does this affect the country they are leaving?
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Discussion Questions:
1. What is brain drain? What is another term for brain drain?
2. To address the problem of brain drain, what should we understand?
3. What are the consequences of brain drain?
4. What are some reasons why people choose to go abroad?
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1.What is brain drain? What is another term for brain drain?
The brain drain is when people have highly skills and education are looking for jobs in other countries, normally developed countries, where they can get better wages and working conditions.
A synonymous used to brain drain is human capital flight.
2. To address the problem of brain drain, what should we understand?
To address the problem of brain drain, we should understand the reasons why qualified people have to leave their countries to work abroad. Then, the goverment o the companies have to try equalize the conditions that people can have in other countries.
3. What are the consequences of brain drain?
The brain drain consequences are the sending country development. For countries developing the consequences of brain drain are very important because the loss of highly qualified people contributes to the intellectual precariousness of the country.
4. What are some reasons why people choose to go abroad?
There may be different reasons why people choose to go abroad. Two of them are higher wages and better working conditions. Among other reasons that can influence in the decision to leave your country is the political instability.
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1. What is brain drain? It is the action of having highly skilled and educated people leaving their country to work abroad
What is another term for brain drain? Human capital flight
2. To address the problem of brain drain, what should we understand? We should understand why those educated people leave their countries
3. What are the consequences of brain drain? Brain drain has negative impact on the sending countries economic prospects and competitiveness
4. What are some reasons why people choose to go abroad? Talking about myself, as I went abroad after I finished my degree, my main reason was the language, as I went to the UK but also the wages and that pharmacists working in a Community Pharmacy there were more valued than in Spain
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1. What is brain drain? What is another term for brain drain?
Human capital flight or, as we say in Spain: brain leake.
when educated and professionally prepared people from one country of emigrate to another country to have more opportunities
2. To address the problem of brain drain, what should we understand?
The causes: Why people choose emigrate as a solution?
The causes should be analyzed and know what benefits they seek with their decision to emigrate: get work related to their studies, better social benefits, better salary, better quality of life or social services
3. What are the consequences of brain drain?
Current and future economic loss. In many countries, the university is public or subsidized by the state. This implies a public investment that is later lost if that person emigrates to another country. That person is educated and trained in his country but then uses his knowledge acquired in other countries; helping to the economy of that country. So there will be a loss of economic development in the future.
4. What are some reasons why people choose to go abroad?
People prepare for years and invest their savings in a career in which they either cannot find work in their country or find precarious jobs. Other causes may be social or military conflicts and even for personal reasons
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Here is one way you can express it: One of the most imminent consequences of brain drain is current and future economic losses or crises.
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1.What is brain drain? What is another term for brain drain?
When highly skilled and well educated people looking for jobs in other countries, normally developed countries, where they can get better wages and working conditions.
A synonymous used to brain drain is human capital flight.
2. To address the problem of brain drain, what should we understand?
We should understand the reasons why these qualified people choose to leave their countries to work abroad. And then we have to try equalize the conditions that people are seeking in other countries.
3. What are the consequences of brain drain?
Between some of them let’s say that competitivity and development are highly affected. For developing countries these consequences are very important because its development to a developed country depend on that.
4. What are some reasons why people choose to go abroad?
Can be different reasons, for instance, lesser wages and worse working conditions than abroad. Others reasons that can influence in the decision to leave your country is the actual situation there, for example, wars, poorness, political instability…
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And then we have to try equalize the conditions that people are seeking in other countries.
Brain drain happens when skilled and educated people go abroad in order to search better work conditions.
This phenomenon also known as human capital flight has severe problems for the sending countries. A single but striking example of these problems is that dynamic and creative people leave their countries. Therefore, the sending countries miss an opportunity of wealth creation.
There are some push factors that cause the brain drain phenomenon such as low wages and lack of good working conditions. As far as the developing countries are concerned, the causes may be social unrest or political reasons.
Among the reasons that attract people to go abroad there are intellectual freedom and funds for research. Even developed countries suffer the negative consequences of the brain drain because people leaving their countries will not pay taxes and this will affect the economic prospect of their home countries.
Addressing the brain drain is not a easy task. In my opinion, well-prepared people should be paid properly. In addition to that, Governments and organizations should invest in research and development in order to take on skilled people.
Good way answering these questions on human capital flight.
Just a better use of adjectives in this sentence and a slight correction on your verb choice on the 2nd sentence:
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Brain drain, or human capital flight, is an action that occurs when highly skilled people leave their country in order to find a better work in a more developed country.
To address the problem of brain drain we should understand the main causes: better work conditions, safety and security of the destination country…
The brain drain hinders the development of a country and is necessary that governments address this problem in order to reduce its negative impact
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At the moment that high qualified people emigrate to other country looking for better life conditions, there is a brain drain; it is a human capital flight that suffers the country of origin.
Governments that are losing brainy people, should deal with the issue ant try to do its best to stop this social scourge. Does it make any sense that there are good universities preparing brilliant minds for long years and then they cannot access to a decent work in their own country? Unfortunately, there are too many people who are in this unfavourable situation and give the step to go abroad to look toward a better future.
A prospering country requires of challenging people; people who love their own country, who feel comfortable, surrounded by their families and friends. Being happy is more productive, so economically and socially it would be beneficial for everyone.
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