Flight of the flamingos

By Michael Kahn, William Blankley, Thomas Pogue, Rasigan Maharajh

Subjects: Labor, Brain drain, Sociology, Research, africa, Research, Human Services, Employees, Technology, Business/Economics, Human Resources & Personnel Management, Research & development management, Labour economics, Africa, history, Business & Economics, South Africa, Social mobility, Republic of South Africa, Business & Economics / Human Resources & Personnel Management, Science, Labor mobility

Description: Over the past four decades South Africa has experienced a significant outflow of research and development (R&D) workers, a mobility trend that this pioneering study analyzes to address the troubling loss of science, engineering, and technology knowledge that South Africa is currently facing.