<story><title>Brain Drain Within the EU?</title><url>https://www.statista.com/chart/15528/eu-scientists-by-location/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>ciguy</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m living in Italy at the moment, and I can watch the brain drain happening in real time. Every single university student I know here is looking to go to the UK or Germany when they graduate, almost without exception.&lt;p&gt;I can&amp;#x27;t blame them at all, taxes are excessive and bureaucracy is excruciating here. Finding even a temporary job usually requires family connections, so the dumbest people with connections end up as managers while the smartest get put into lower positions. It&amp;#x27;s a great place to live if you have money, but a horrible place to be for smart young people without lots of social&amp;#x2F;family clout.</text></comment>
<story><title>Brain Drain Within the EU?</title><url>https://www.statista.com/chart/15528/eu-scientists-by-location/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jsnell</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand how these graphs show brain drain, there a bunch of other explanations. For example maybe a bigger proportion of Germans get an appropriate university degree than Italians. Or maybe the people getting an engineering degree in Italy can&amp;#x27;t get a job in that field, and end up working on something else but not emigrating. Or the difference comes from non-EU scientists&amp;#x2F;engineers preferentially moving to UK or Germany when immigrating to the EU.&lt;p&gt;To show brain drain you really need to look at the migration flows, not a static snapshot of the current populations.</text></comment>