Are "nativists" wrong about brain drain?

Just because high-skilled migration is “voluntary and mutually beneficial” doesn’t mean it makes everyone better off.

Written by Noah Carl.

In a recent article, Alex Nowrasteh of the Cato Institute argues that brain drain is a “bad argument for closed borders”. Since he quotes me twice, I thought I’d pen a response.

Regular readers will know that I already responded to Noah Smith’s article on brain drain. Nowrasteh must have missed my response, since his article raises many of the same points as Smith’s and doesn’t address the counterarguments I put forward. At this point, I could just say, “go read my response to Smith”. But I think a direct rebuttal to Nowrasteh is warranted.