“FACTORES DE LA FUGA DE CEREBROS O MIGRACIÓN ALTAMENTE CALIFICADA”

Abstract

The Brain Drain or Highly Skilled Migration Phenomenon; have been regularly heard in Latin America in recent years. The authors Docquier and Rapoport; (2008) it as the migration of people with high professional level in developing countries; to those more developed ones. Among the most important causes that produce the Brain Drain includes the Unemployment; Professional Development Opportunities, Policy and Economic Stability of a State which determine the level of incidence of the Social Phenomenon within a given society at a given time. As such; the purpose of this paper is to determine the factors that affect the Brain Drain within the Ecuadorian society; via surveys to conduct a Factor Analysis of the collected information and conclude which are the factors that indeed produce the Brain Drain or Highly Skilled Migration in the country.