Brain Drain

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The term brain drain means when skilled intellectual and technical labour through the movement of such labour to more favourable geographical, economical or professional environments. 

In simple words it is emigration of scientists, technologists, academics, etc, for better pay, equipment or conditions.

Brain Drain can be of different types:

a. Organizational brain drain: emigration from one organization to the other. For instance an employee shifting from Microsoft to Yahoo. 

b. Geographical brain drain: when highly trained individuals shift from one region to another region for instance an engineer who educated from India takes up a job in USA.

c. Industrial brain drain: trained skilled labour moving from one sector to another sector. For example an employee working in private company goes to work in public sector unit.

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