Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao.
A new report reveals the that United States is benefiting from the “brain drain” from other nations given data showing that two thirds of doctors who graduate from US universities end up staying in America for ten years or longer afterwards, on long term or permanent visas.
The findings from Oak Ridge Institute for Science Education (ORISE) discovered that foreign doctorate recipients routinely take regular employment in the U.S. after completing postdoctoral appointments. Their employers sponsor their stay.
The information was derived using 2011 tax record, the Survey of Earned Doctorates, published annually by the NSF and Social Security Administration data.
There is an explanation for the slight decline in the 2011 “stay rate” for foreign doctorate recipients with permanent visas at graduation who graduated 10 years ago or earlier (65%) versus the 68 percent rate for those graduating five years earlier.
“Since there’s only a small decline in stay rates in the first five years after graduation, one could assume that foreign doctorate recipients from U.S. universities are finding regular employment in the U.S. even after completing postdoctoral appointments,” explained Michael Finn, ORAU senior economist and author of the ORISE report. “There was a slight decline in the 10-year stay rate; however, nearly two-thirds stayed in the U.S. after 10 years.”
Most, nearly half, of the doctors are from China and India. Other countries with above-average stay rates include Iran, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia.
Meanwhile, doctors from Thailand, Jordan, Brazil, South Africa, Chile, New Zealand and Indonesia are less likely to stick around. They have the lowest stay rates.
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