Human capital flight
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Human capital flight is the emigration or immigration of individuals who have received advanced training, especially higher education, in their home country. The net benefits of human capital flight f
Theoretical physicist Albert Einstein, who emigrated to the United States to escape Nazi persecution, is an example of human capital flight as a result of political change.
Berlin Wall in November 1975
Berlin Wall
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The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that encircled West Berlin from 1961 to 1989, separating it from East Berlin and the German Democratic Republic. Construction of the Berlin Wall was comm
Human capital flight
…in lost educational investment. In August 1961, East Germany erected a barbed-wire barrier that would eventually be expanded by construction into the Berlin Wall, effectively closing the loophole. Human capital flight in Europe fits into two distinct trends. The first is an outflow of highly qualified scientists…
From the West Berlin side, Berlin Wall graffiti art in 1986. The wall's "death strip", on the east side of the Wall, here follows the curve of the Luisenstadt Canal (filled in 1932).
East German Combat Groups of the Working Class close the border on 13 August 1961 in preparation for the Berlin Wall construction
East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961
US President John F. Kennedy visiting the Berlin Wall on 26 June 1963