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The American Brain Drain and Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Vivek Wadhwa,
Gary Gereffi and
Alex Salkever
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The United States has long served as a magnet for talented scientists, engineers and mathematicians from China and India. This attraction has proven controversial, both in Asia and in the United States. Economic nationalists in China and India have long complained that the “brain drain” damaged their countries' ability to compete and slowed economic development by skimming off the best talent. For their part, critics in the United States claimed that foreign workers arriving on H-1B visas displaced U.S. knowledge workers and pushed down wages for this class of employment.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 14 , April 2009, e1
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[9] Wadhwa, Saxenian, Freeman, and Gereffi (2009), America's Loss is the World's Gain: Ibid.