In this paper we want to show the propensity to return to Italy of a sample of Italian academics who have emigrated abroad and we provide new empirical evidence through structural equation models (SEM). With SEM we have obtained more information about the relations between the variables and the...

Few empirical studies have sought to ascertain the propensity with which Italian researchers return to Italy after a period spent abroad. Research into this question mainly draws on generalized databases (macro data), often with only dichotomous variables (returns vs. does not return). The main...

Contrary to current thinking which views the European brain drain as a transitory phenomenon, this paper shows, using a micro-data analysis, that, as far as Italy is concerned, such migration is permanent. The present study provides new empirical evidence on the propensity to return. The...