Diaspora as a source of human capital: the effects of the relationship between scientific Turkish diaspora and the homeland on reverse brain drain

ABSTRACT

In this study, the effects of relationships between homeland and the Scientific Turkish Diaspora in Germany on the possibility of reverse brain drain and intellectual reverse brain drain are examined through the data obtained from 466 Turkish and/or Turkish scientists. According to the findings, the relationships of the scientists in the diaspora with their homeland positively affect all of the likelihood of reverse brain drain and the possibility of intellectual reverse brain drain. However, there are differences between the types and effects of the relationship.

KEYWORDS:

• Diaspora
• scientific diaspora
• migration
• human capital
• intellectual reverse brain drain
• economic development

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Atakan Durmaz

Atakan Durmaz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at Samsun University, where he has been since April 2019. From 2010 to 2019 he served as Research Assistant and Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at Bayburt University. From 2015 to 2016 he served as Visiting Assistant Professor at Duisburg-Essen University. He received a B.S. from Osmangazi University in 2009, and an M.S. from the Karadeniz Technical University in 2012. He received his Ph.D. in Economics from the Karadeniz Technical University in 2017. His research interests migration, Turkish Diaspora, human capital and economic development and growth.